On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Thom Hehl wrote:
OK, I run my timezone database under windows, so, after a couple of tries, I got the code I downloaded from the TZ database site to compile under windows.
Now what? I looked at the HTML files and there's no readme or anything else that looks like documentation on how to use it.
Most of the documentation is in Unix man page format. If you can't read man pages under Windows, look at the corresponding text files (e.g. tzfile.5.txt instead of just tzfile.5). date.1 documents a command line utility that can display or change the system date and time in any known timezone, but it probably won't work under Windows. newtzset.3, newctime.3, newstrftime.3, and time2posiz.3 document library functions that are callable from C programs. Some parts of these may be usable under Windows, but other parts rely on operating system features that will probably be different. tzfile.5 documents the format of the compiled binary timezone files. zic.8 documents the command line untility that compiles the human-readable specifications of time zone rules into binary format. zdump.8 documents the command lile utility that extracts and displays information from compiled time zone descriptions. tzselect.8 documents an interactive ksh script that can help users to choose time zone settings. --apb (Alan Barrett)