April 6, 2002
12:31 a.m.
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:51:49 -0800 From: Avery Chan <avery@apple.com>
What would be most helpful is some code (preferably in C) showing how to
parse the files.
That's in localtime.c, which is part of the tzcode distribution. There's an independent implementation in the GNU C library, which you can also look at.
Also I looked at the rule files, and I sort of understand them, but I'm not too sure what the format is exactly as well as some of the syntax (e.g. what is 'Link')?
The zic man page covers that topic; it's in the file "zic.8" in the tz distribution.