Is there a central repository for time zone information

Question

I know that systems are using their own time zone databases at different levels.

Is there a central place where all timezeone and DST information lives, that makes i

Answer 1

Get the time zone database from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases — was ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub — or the many other source on the web. These will be keyed in UN ISO codes and English country/City names

And then translate them from http://www.unicode.org/cldr/

e.g.

• French http://unicode.org/cldr/data/common/main/fr.xml
• Spanish http://unicode.org/cldr/data/common/main/es.xml

Answer 2

The best database I know of is the tz database, also known as the Olson database.