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</p>
<p>
Please send corrections to this web page to the
<a href="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone mailing list</a>.</p>
<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org">time zone mailing list</a>.</p>
<h2>The <code>tz</code> database</h2>
<p>
The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain">public-domain</a>
@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ implementation set the <code>TZ</code> environment variable to
the location's full name, e.g., <code>TZ="America/New_York"</code>.</p>
<p>
In the <code>tz</code> database's
<a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub"><abbr
<a href="ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub"><abbr
title="File Transfer Protocol">FTP</abbr> distribution</a>
the code is in the file <code>tzcode<var>C</var>.tar.gz</code>,
where <code><var>C</var></code> is the code's version;
@ -98,25 +98,30 @@ see the downloaded
<code>README</code> file for what to do next.</p>
<pre style="margin-left: 2em"><code>mkdir tz
cd tz
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget</a> 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz'
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget</a> 'ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/tz*.tar.gz'
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/">gzip</a> -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/">tar</a> -xf -
gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf -
</code></pre>
<p>
The code and data files can also be obtained from the
<a href="http://www.iana.org">IANA</a>
<a href="http://www.iana.org/time-zones">timezone web page</a>.
<p>
The code lets you compile the <code>tz</code> source files into
machine-readable binary files, one for each location. It also lets
you read a <code>tz</code> binary file and interpret time stamps for that
location.</p>
<p>
The data are by no means authoritative. If you find errors, please
send changes to the <a href="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone
send changes to the <a href="mailto:tz@iana.org">time zone
mailing list</a>. You can also <a
href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz">browse recent
messages</a> sent to the mailing list, <a
href="mailto:tz-request@elsie.nci.nih.gov">subscribe</a> to it,
retrieve the <a
href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz">full archive of old
messages</a> (in gzip compressed format), or retrieve <a
href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz">subscribe</a> to it.
browse the <a
href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/">archive of old
messages</a> (message by message or in gzip compressed format),
or retrieve <a
href="ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz">archived older versions of code
and data</a>.</p>
<p>
@ -273,6 +278,11 @@ is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java.
It is freely available under the <abbr>LGPL</abbr>.</li>
<li>Tcl, mentioned above, also contains a
<code>tz</code> binary file reader.</li>
<li><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DateTime::TimeZone::Tzfile">
DateTime::TimeZone::Tzfile</a>
is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Perl.
It is freely available under the same terms as Perl
(dual <abbr>GPL</abbr> and Artistic license).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone software</h2>
<ul>