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55 lines
2.2 KiB
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Short: Time Zone Database and Library
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Author: Carsten Larsen, Arthur David Olson & others
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Uploader: Carsten Larsen (carsten.larsen@mail.com)
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Type: util/time
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Version: 5.00
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Requires: util/time/tzdata
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Architecture: m68k-amigaos
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URL: http://www.iana.org/time-zones
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"What time is it?" -- Richard Deacon as The King
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"Any time you want it to be." -- Frank Baxter as The Scientist
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(from the Bell System film "About Time")
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The Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) contains code and
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data that represent the history of local time for many representative
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locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect
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changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets,
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and daylight-saving rules.
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The Amiga installation includes:
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* Amiga guide and install instruction
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* The Time Zone Database itself
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* GUI to select local time zone
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* SetClockGMT to adjust daylight-saving time
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* ZDump to show time in other parts of the world
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* Time Zone Library exposing database
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* Support for localtime zone file
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* Help files and documentation
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To automaticaly adjust daylight-saving time a RTC module is required.
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License and Credits
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===================
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Unless otherwise specified, all files in the tz code and data are in
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the public domain, so clarified as of 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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The few exceptions are code derived from BSD, which uses the BSD license.
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Thanks to these Time Zone Caballeros who've made major contributions to the
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time conversion package: Keith Bostic; Bob Devine; Paul Eggert; Robert Elz;
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Guy Harris; Mark Horton; John Mackin; and Bradley White. Thanks also to
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Michael Bloom, Art Neilson, Stephen Prince, John Sovereign, and Frank Wales
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for testing work, and to Gwillim Law for checking local mean time data.
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Thanks in particular to Arthur David Olson, the project's founder and first
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maintainer, to whom the time zone community owes the greatest debt of all.
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None of them are responsible for remaining errors.
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Look in ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/ for updated versions of these files.
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Amiga variants are at: ftp://aminet.net/util/time/tzdev.zip
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Please send general comments or information to tz@iana.org.
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