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Eggert mods
SCCS-file: README
SCCS-SID: 7.12
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Arthur David Olson authored and eggert committed Jul 18, 2012
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To use the new functions, use a "-ltz" option when compiling or linking.

Historical local time information has been included here not because it
is particularly useful, but rather to:
Historical local time information has been included here to:

* provide a compendium of data about the history of civil time
that is useful even if the data are not 100% accurate;

* 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
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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
the files currently do not even attempt to covar all time stamps before
1970, and there are undoubtedly errors even for time stamps since 1970.
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
tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for use in the future). Europeans take note!

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