All up, please refer to HTTP://www.Microsoft.com/time for more information. ________________________________ From: Alain Petit Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 6:32 AM To: David Braverman; Thom Hehl; tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] Newbie Microsoft also provides timezone updates via hot fixes that you need to download explicitely. You can find the various notices at http://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/ and also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387 -Alain ________________________________ From: David Braverman [mailto:david@braverman.org] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 8:33 AM To: Thom Hehl; tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] Newbie Unfortunately, Windows has no native support for the tzinfo database. The Windows OS family uses a proprietary, registry-based pseudo-database that doesn’t have much historical data—and even then, only on Windows Vista, 7, and 2008. Microsoft updates this data through Windows Update, so if you don’t have that feature enabled, you might show up for all your appointments an hour late during the first week of November. (j/k) Individual Windows applications may have their own support, however. I’ll let you know about the 3rd-party library I use off-list. David Braverman http://www.inner-drive.com/ From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Thom Hehl Sent: Friday 21 October 2011 6:52 AM To: tz@iana.org Subject: [tz] Newbie 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.