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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Sat,  5 Feb 2005 14:51:12 +0000
To: rs_rlab@mail.ru, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] localization
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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...