They want to get lines of the following form:
0 string \x14\x1aTZ compiled time zone information 0 string \x89TZ\x0d\0x0a\x1a\x0a compiled time zone information
I already sent them lines of the following form: #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # timezone: file(1) magic for timezone data # # from Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) # this should work on Linux, SunOS, and maybe others 0 string \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0 timezone data 0 string \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0 timezone data 0 string \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0 timezone data 0 string \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0 timezone data 0 string \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\5\0 timezone data 0 string \0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0 timezone data which I snarfed from, I think, a Linux distribution (Debian?). No guarantees that it's the best possible choice, although it does manage to get the right answer on a SPARC/Solaris 2.5.1 system (on the time zone data files that come with Solaris 2.5.1), except for the "Eire" compiled file.