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# Global Time Zone Database (global-tz) | ||
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The Global Time Zone Database contains the history of how local time has changed around the world. | ||
It is derived from data in the [IANA Time Zone Database](https://github.com/eggert/tz). | ||
For many years this information could be reliably obtained from the IANA repository. | ||
In recent years however, the data available by default from the IANA repository has been reduced. | ||
This repository primarily exists to reinstate the data that has been effectively removed. | ||
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For more info, please see the project home page: | ||
https://github.com/JodaOrg/global-tz | ||
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The original README is included below. | ||
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----- | ||
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README for the tz distribution | ||
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"Where do I set the hands of the clock?" -- Les Tremayne as The King | ||
"Oh that--you can set them any place you want." -- Frank Baxter as The Scientist | ||
(from the Bell System film "About Time") | ||
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The Time Zone Database (called tz, tzdb or zoneinfo) contains code and | ||
data that represent the history of local time for many representative | ||
locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect | ||
changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, | ||
and daylight-saving rules. | ||
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See <https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html> or the | ||
file tz-link.html for how to acquire the code and data. Once acquired, | ||
read the comments in the file 'Makefile' and make any changes needed | ||
to make things right for your system, especially if you are using some | ||
platform other than GNU/Linux. Then run the following commands, | ||
substituting your desired installation directory for "$HOME/tzdir": | ||
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make TOPDIR=$HOME/tzdir install | ||
$HOME/tzdir/usr/bin/zdump -v America/Los_Angeles | ||
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See the file tz-how-to.html for examples of how to read the data files. | ||
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This database of historical local time information has several goals: | ||
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* Provide a compendium of data about the history of civil time that | ||
is useful even if not 100% accurate. | ||
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* Give an idea of the variety of local time rules that have existed | ||
in the past and thus may be expected in the future. | ||
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* Test the generality of the local time rule description system. | ||
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The information in the time zone data files is by no means authoritative; | ||
fixes and enhancements are welcome. Please see the file CONTRIBUTING | ||
for details. | ||
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Thanks to these Time Zone Caballeros who've made major contributions to the | ||
time conversion package: Keith Bostic; Bob Devine; Paul Eggert; Robert Elz; | ||
Guy Harris; Mark Horton; John Mackin; and Bradley White. Thanks also to | ||
Michael Bloom, Art Neilson, Stephen Prince, John Sovereign, and Frank Wales | ||
for testing work, and to Gwillim Law for checking local mean time data. | ||
Thanks in particular to Arthur David Olson, the project's founder and first | ||
maintainer, to whom the time zone community owes the greatest debt of all. | ||
None of them are responsible for remaining errors. | ||
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This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2009-05-17 by | ||
Arthur David Olson. The other files in this distribution are either | ||
public domain or BSD licensed; see the file LICENSE for details. |