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Annotation of 43BSDTahoe/etc/tzone/README, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: @(#)README     3.1
        !             2: 
        !             3: Please send comments or information to
        !             4:        seismo!elsie!tz
        !             5: for forwarding to folks interested in time zone matters.
        !             6: 
        !             7: Be sure to read the comments in "Makefile" and make any changes
        !             8: needed to make things right for your system.
        !             9: 
        !            10: This version of the time zone software uses a new format
        !            11: (based on the work of Guy Harris, a.k.a [email protected])
        !            12: for the time zone information files.  They are now stored by default in a
        !            13: directory named "/etc/zoneinfo" rather than "/etc/tzdir" or "/etc/timezones"
        !            14: as before.  If you've already compiled programs with older time zone software,
        !            15: just leave the "/etc/tzdir" and/or "/etc/timezones" files around until you
        !            16: have a chance to recompile.
        !            17: 
        !            18: For better compatability with other versions of time conversion functions,
        !            19: the time zone abbreviation to be used with localtime's return value is now
        !            20: pointed to by one of the two elements of the (char *) array tzname, rather
        !            21: than by the (char *) tz_abbr.  If you have code that uses tz_abbr, add a
        !            22:        -DTZA_COMPAT
        !            23: to the end of the
        !            24:        CFLAGS=
        !            25: line in "Makefile".
        !            26: 
        !            27: To use the new functions, use a "-lz" option when compiling or linking.
        !            28: 
        !            29: Historical local time information has been included here not because it
        !            30: is particularly useful, but rather to:
        !            31: 
        !            32: *      give an idea of the variety of local time rules that have
        !            33:        existed in the past and thus an idea of the variety that may be
        !            34:        expected in the future;
        !            35: 
        !            36: *      provide a test of the generality of the local time rule description
        !            37:        system.
        !            38: 
        !            39: The information in the time zone data files is by no means authoritative;
        !            40: if you know that the rules are different from those in a file, by all means
        !            41: feel free to change file (and please send the changed version to seismo!elsie!tz
        !            42: for use in the future).  Europeans take note!

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