History Element (Regional Settings)

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Used in TIMEZONE.XML (\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\CONFIG) to preserve former time zone definitions, so that, after the new 2007 time zones take effect, time values for 2006 and earlier will still be calculated correctly.

<History
  Year = "Integer">
    <StandardTime>
      ...
    </StandardTime>
  <DaylightTime>
      ...
    </DaylightTime>
</History>

Attributes

Attribute	Description
Year	Required Integer. Specifies the final year for which to preserve a time zone definition.

Child Elements

Bias, DaylightTime, StandardTime

Parent Elements

TimeZone

Occurrences

Minimum: 0 Maximum: 1

Remarks

The History element can apply to any time zone for any year indicated.