The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1997h.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1997j.tar.gz are now available. These involve the minor changes to put "TZif" at the start of each time zone information file; a rule has also been added to the Makefile so you can make zones to just recompile the zone information files (rather than doing a full "make install" with its other effects). Folks had concerns about the "beta" approach to time stamping of files; I expect to see some proposals for alternate approaches on the mailing list shortly. Note that ASCII stamps of the form yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss or yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss UCT (or whatever variant of "UCT" is standard-compliant these days) will "strcmp" correctly, are human readable, and avoid 2038 problems (though they do, of course, have 9999 problems). --ado