Identifying time zones in ISO 8601
No, I'm not talking about zone offsets --- those can vary during the year for a region based on e.g. DST. I'm talking about the actual time zones maintained by IANA . I understand these are not supported by ISO 8601, correct? What are platforms doing to support identifying time zones in ISO 8601-like string representations? I notice that the latest Java date/time library is using an extended ISO 8601 format for this, e.g. 2011-12-03T10:15:30+01:00[Europe/Paris] . (See DateTimeFormatter API .) Is there some converging convention (e.g. with other languages and platforms) for extending ISO 8601