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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: rs_rlab@mail.ru, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] localization
Date: Sat,  5 Feb 2005 14:51:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ed0269cbc54de7d49d1ec5adde22e1c@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263202156.20050205145200@mail.ru>

I don't believe there is a program to do it.

The files are re-formatted form of the Unix timezone info. You can get
the latest Unix code from: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm which
points you at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/.

The timezone is fixed, the hassle is the Daylight saving time
switching days which tend to move around based on the local
government's whim [1].

Timezones are described in an textural table which is "compiled" to a binary
file. All you need to do is convert this output to text (the Unix toolkit contains
such a program) and add the apropriate header to make a plan9 timezone file.

-Steve

[1] wasn't there a case a few years back, of the mayor of Rio changing the
metropolitan area's timezone so its workers could have more time on the beach?
Doesn't sound such a good idea in a rainy English winter...


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-05 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-05 12:52 Sergey Reva
2005-02-05 14:51 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2011-04-27 15:59 dexen deVries
2011-04-27 16:14 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 17:08   ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-04-27 17:20     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-04-27 18:17       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 20:45         ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-04-27 20:51           ` dexen deVries
2011-04-27 21:00           ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 21:52           ` smiley
2011-04-27 18:04 ` tlaronde
2011-04-27 21:29   ` Iruatã Souza

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