Linux-Hams archive - January 1999: Re: Time Zone Change?

Re: Time Zone Change?


Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:40:55 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Kai Schulte wrote:

> PS: by the way, does anybody know where to get time zone info
> files in a non-precompiled format and what tool to compile
> them with?

If you look on:

ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/

you'll find all the gory details in the tar.gz files.

Use 'zic' to compile the timezone files.
Use 'zdump' to dump the information in a timezone file.

73, Andrew G8FSL.

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