4.8.3.2 Time Zone Name

Basic Definition | Description| | Example

Basic Definition

Property Name: TZNAME
Purpose: This property specifies the customary designation for a time zone description.
Value Type: TEXT
Property Parameters: Non-standard and language property parameters can be specified on this property.
Conformance: This property can be specified in a "VTIMEZONE" calendar component.

Description

This property may be specified in multiple languages; in order to provide for different language requirements.

Format Definition

This property is defined by the following
notation:

  tzname     = "TZNAME" tznparam ":" text CRLF

  tznparam   = *(

             ; the following is optional,
             ; but MUST NOT occur more than once

             (";" languageparam) /

             ; the following is optional,
             ; and MAY occur more than once

             (";" xparam)

             )

Example

The following are example of this property:

  TZNAME:EST

The following is an example of this property when two different
languages for the time zone name are specified:

  TZNAME;LANGUAGE=en:EST
  TZNAME;LANGUAGE=fr-CA:HNE

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