Try out our new RRULE tool for creating RRULE compatible strings.

3.8.3.2. Time Zone Name

Property Name

TZNAME

Purpose

This property specifies the customary designation for a time zone description.

Value Type

TEXT

Property Parameters

IANA, non-standard, and language property parameters can be specified on this property.

Conformance

This property can be specified in "STANDARD" and "DAYLIGHT" sub-components.

Description

This property specifies a customary name that can be used when displaying dates that occur during the observance defined by the time zone sub-component.

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.
            ;
            (";" other-param)
            ;
            )

Example

The following are examples of this property

 TZNAME:EST

 TZNAME;LANGUAGE=fr-CA:HNE

This document was automatically converted to XHTML using an RFC to HTML converter with the original text document at the Internet Engineering Task Force web site at ietf.org .  The original text document should be referred to if there are any errors or discrepancies found in this document.

Need to test your iCalendar feeds?

The iCalendar Validator provides developers and testers a method to validate their iCalendar feeds, which can take data from either a URL, file or text snippet and compare it against the RFC 5545 specification.  We believe we have one of the best iCalendar validation tools available on the internet. More information about the validator can be found here.