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- @(#)README 3.1
-
- Please send comments or information to
- seismo!elsie!tz
- for forwarding to folks interested in time zone matters.
-
- Be sure to read the comments in "Makefile" and make any changes
- needed to make things right for your system.
-
- This version of the time zone software uses a new format
- (based on the work of Guy Harris, a.k.a guy@sun.UUCP)
- for the time zone information files. They are now stored by default in a
- directory named "/etc/zoneinfo" rather than "/etc/tzdir" or "/etc/timezones"
- as before. If you've already compiled programs with older time zone software,
- just leave the "/etc/tzdir" and/or "/etc/timezones" files around until you
- have a chance to recompile.
-
- For better compatability with other versions of time conversion functions,
- the time zone abbreviation to be used with localtime's return value is now
- pointed to by one of the two elements of the (char *) array tzname, rather
- than by the (char *) tz_abbr. If you have code that uses tz_abbr, add a
- -DTZA_COMPAT
- to the end of the
- CFLAGS=
- line in "Makefile".
-
- To use the new functions, use a "-lz" option when compiling or linking.
-
- Historical local time information has been included here not because it
- is particularly useful, but rather to:
-
- * give an idea of the variety of local time rules that have
- existed in the past and thus an idea of the variety that may be
- expected in the future;
-
- * provide a test of the generality of the local time rule description
- system.
-
- The information in the time zone data files is by no means authoritative;
- if you know that the rules are different from those in a file, by all means
- feel free to change file (and please send the changed version to seismo!elsie!tz
- for use in the future). Europeans take note!
-