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Many countries in western Europe (including the European Union) follow new regulations this year regarding daylight savings time: daylight savings time ends on October 27th, not on September 29th as it would have with the old rule. As a consequence, if you don't take any corrective action, your favorite computer will be off by one hour between October 27th and September 29th. timezones96.tar.gz is a small package that I put together using the extensive timezone data gathered by Arthur David Olson (arthur_david_olson@nih.gov). These files define the time rules for more than 350 locations worldwide, extending as far back as the 19th century! In addition to compiling quad-fat the executables for the zic and zdump, I have written a region dictionary mapping the timezones to the geographical areas known by the Time module of Preferences.app, so Preferences.app is still usable with this new set of time zone files. timezones96.tar.gz had been put in: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions It should ultimately move to: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/misc Disclaimer: This package has been developed and tested on NEXTSTEP 3.3 running on black hardware. My guess is that it should run on other architectures running 3.3. It may or may not work on 3.[012] or 4.0. In particular, I seem to remember that the definition of timezones in Preferences.app has changed in the past (maybe in 3.2 or 3.3). Pascal Leroy pleroy@rational.com
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