From ebf32443d52224ed7e8a29a7518f4fee22a21cc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:26:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Eggert mods SCCS-file: tz-link.htm SCCS-SID: 7.26 --- tz-link.htm | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index 6765e3d..831a22a 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ the code is in the file tzcodeC.tar.gz, where C is the code's version; similarly, the data are in tzdataD.tar.gz, where D is the data's version. +The code lets you compile the text data into time zone files, one for +each location. It also lets you read a compiled time zone file and +interpret time stamps for that location.

The data are by no means authoritative. If you find errors, please send changes to the time zone @@ -46,12 +49,6 @@ HREF="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz">archive of old messages (in gzip compressed format).

-The GNU C Library -has an independent, thread-safe implementation of -a time zone file reader that is compatible with tz. -This library is freely available under the GNU Library General Public License, -and is widely used in GNU/Linux systems. -

The Web has several other sources for time zone and daylight saving time data. Here are some recent links that may be of interest.

Web pages using recent versions of the tz database

@@ -73,6 +70,19 @@ zone converter is a multilingual interface. is a web interface to a time zone database derived from tz's. +

Other time zone file readers

+

Other tz-based time zone conversion software