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Editorial: Refactor time zone identifier spec text
This commit builds on the new ECMA-262 text for time zone identifiers that was introduced in tc39/ecma262#3035. This commit adds Temporal-specific AOs and makes a handful of edits to ECMA-262 AOs for changes that didn't apply to %Date% but that will be required after Temporal is merged into ECMA-262. This commit also revises the ASCII-case-insensitive section to address feedback from ECMA-262 editors before this text was removed from tc39/ecma262#3035: * Remove the "sequence of code points" info because only Strings seemed to use these definitions. * Minor wordsmithing, e.g. "string value" => "String"
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"main": "polyfill/lib/index.mjs",
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"@tc39/ecma262-biblio": "=2.1.2576",
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"@tc39/ecma262-biblio": "=2.1.2577",
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"@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^5.59.9",
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This section lists amendments which must be made to <a href="https://tc39.es/ecma402/">ECMA-402, the ECMAScript® 2023 Internationalization API Specification</a>.
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Text to be added is marked <ins>like this</ins>, and text to be deleted is marked <del>like this</del>.
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Blocks of unmodified text between modified sections are marked by [...].
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This text is based on top of the ECMA-402 spec text from commit <a href="https://github.com/tc39/ecma402/commit/eb81befe8b739f976a3d6e68ec567302c4e217f0">eb81befe8b739f976a3d6e68ec567302c4e217f0</a>.
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<h1><a href="https://tc39.es/ecma402/#sec-time-zone-names">Time Zone Names</a></h1>
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<h1>Use of the IANA Time Zone Database</h1>
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<emu-note type="editor">This section replaces the <a href="https://tc39.es/ecma-402/#sec-time-zone-names">Time Zone Names</a> section in ECMA-402.</emu-note>
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Implementations that adopt the ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification are time zone aware: they use the IANA Time Zone Database <a href="https://www.iana.org/time-zones/">https://www.iana.org/time-zones/</a> to supply time zone identifiers and data used in ECMAScript calculations and formatting.
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This section defines how the IANA Time Zone Database should be used by time zone aware implementations.
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Except as overridden by AvailableNamedTimeZoneIdentifiers, each Zone in the IANA Time Zone Database must be a primary time zone identifier and each Link name in the IANA Time Zone Database must be a non-primary time zone identifier.
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No String may be an available named time zone identifier unless it is a Zone name or a Link name in the IANA Time Zone Database.
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Available named time zone identifiers returned by ECMAScript built-in objects must use the casing found in the IANA Time Zone Database.
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</p>
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<p>
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In the IANA Time Zone Database, the UTC time zone is represented by the Zone *"Etc/UTC"* which is distinct from the Zone *"Etc/GMT"*.
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For historical reasons, ECMAScript uses *"UTC"* as the primary identifier for the former Zone and does not recognize the latter Zone as distinct, instead requiring *"Etc/UTC"*, *"Etc/GMT"*, and *"GMT"* (if available) to be non-primary identifiers that resolve to *"UTC"*.
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This is the only deviation from the IANA Time Zone Database that is required of a time zone aware ECMAScript implementation.
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The IANA Time Zone Database is typically updated between five and ten times per year.
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These updates may add new Zone or Link names, may change Zones to Links, and may change the UTC offsets and transitions associated with any Zone.
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ECMAScript implementations are recommended to include updates to the IANA Time Zone Database as soon as possible.
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Such prompt action ensures that ECMAScript programs can accurately perform time-zone-sensitive calculations and can use newly-added available named time zone identifiers supplied by external input or the host environment.
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If implementations revise time zone information during the lifetime of an agent, then which identifiers are supported, the primary time zone identifier associated with any identifier, and the UTC offsets and transitions associated with any Zone, must be consistent with results previously observed by that agent.
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Due to the complexity of supporting this requirement, it is recommended that implementations maintain a fully consistent copy of the IANA Time Zone Database for the lifetime of each agent.
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<p>This section complements but does not supersede <emu-xref href="#sec-time-zone-identifiers"></emu-xref>.</p>
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<emu-xref href="#sec-time-zone-names"></emu-xref> defines a set of abstract operations concerning the names of supported time zones.
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This section introduces additional requirements on these operations for implementations.
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The IANA Time Zone Database offers build options that affect which time zone identifiers are primary.
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The default build options merge different countries' time zones, for example *"Atlantic/Reykjavik"* being a Link to the Zone *"Africa/Abidjan"*.
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Geographically and politically distinct locations are likely to introduce divergent time zone rules in a future version of the IANA Time Zone Database.
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Therefore, it is recommended that ECMAScript implementations instead use build options such as <code>PACKRATDATA=backzone PACKRATLIST=zone.tab</code> or a similar alternative that ensures at least one primary identifier for each <a href="https://www.iso.org/glossary-for-iso-3166.html">ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2</a> country code.
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<emu-clause id="sup-availablenamedtimezoneidentifiers" oldids="sec-availabletimezones" type="implementation-defined abstract operation">
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<h1>AvailableNamedTimeZoneIdentifiers ( ): a List of Time Zone Identifier Records</h1>
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Its result describes all available named time zone identifiers in this implementation, as well as the primary time zone identifier corresponding to each available named time zone identifier.
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The List is ordered according to the [[Identifier]] field of each Time Zone Identifier Record.
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<p>This definition supersedes the definition provided in <emu-xref href="#sec-availablenamedtimezoneidentifiers"></emu-xref>.</p>
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1. Let _identifiers_ be a List containing the String value of each Zone or Link name in the IANA Time Zone Database.
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1. Assert: No element of _identifiers_ is an ASCII-case-insensitive match for any other element.
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1. Assert: Every element of _identifiers_ identifies a Zone or Link name in the IANA Time Zone Database.
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1. Set _identifiers_ to SortStringListByCodeUnit(_identifiers_).
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1. If _primary_ is one of *"Etc/UTC"*, *"Etc/GMT"*, or *"GMT"*, set _primary_ to *"UTC"*.
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Time zone identifiers in the IANA Time Zone Database can change over time.
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At a minimum, it is recommended that implementations limit changes to the result of AvailableNamedTimeZoneIdentifiers to the changes allowed by GetAvailableNamedTimeZoneIdentifier, for the lifetime of the surrounding agent.
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Due to the complexity of supporting these recommendations, it is recommended that the result of AvailableNamedTimeZoneIdentifiers remains the same for the lifetime of the surrounding agent.
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A conforming implementation must recognize *"UTC"* and all other Zone and Link names (and <strong>only</strong> such names), and use best available current and historical information about their offsets from UTC and their daylight saving time rules in calculations. However, the set of combinations of time zone name and language tag for which localized time zone names are available is implementation dependent.
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