The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'The Time Zone Information Format (TZif)' <draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif-13.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2018-10-09. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document defines the Time Zone Information Format (TZif) for representing and exchanging time zone information, independent of any particular service or protocol. Two MIME media types for this format are also defined. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-murchison-tzdist-tzif/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.