Oliver,´ You might find this article useful: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/locale/zoneinfo_dotnet_api.aspx Ilya ------------------------------------------ Ilya Shtein IT Architect Banking Solutions Strategic Architecture Metavante Technologies 414-577-9418 ilya.shtein@metavante.com "Gerber, Oliver" <Oliver.Gerber@vi asyshc.com> To <tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> 11/25/2008 10:44 cc AM Subject Running tzcode under Windows / C+ Please respond to + .NET tz@elsie.nci.nih. gov Hello all, we are using the TZ database on an embedded device. As the system has no standard operating system (only a small proprietary MicroKernel) and is not very powerful, we cannot use the TZ data “as is” on the device. Instead of this, we create text files from the TZ data for the countries and the time range we need on our system. The application that is used to create these files, is written in C++ .NET (because our whole development and deployment processes are done on Windows-based machines). Currently I’m using a Linux machine to compile/make the code from tzcode*.tar.gz and to create the binary tzfiles. These binary files are then parsed by the application mentioned above. Is there any possibility to compile the tzcode under Windows (especially Visual Studio 2005/2008) so that we could create our text files automatically using only the tzcode*.tar.gz and tzdata*.tar.gz archives? I’d appreciate any help or hints. Best regards, Oliver Oliver Gerber Diplom-Informatiker Software Engineer Cardinal Health Research Services ph: +49 931 4972 276 | fax: +49 931 4972 62276 oliver.gerber@cardinalhealth.com www.cardinalhealth.com/researchservices Cardinal Health Germany 234 GmbH Leibnizstr. 7 97204 Hoechberg, Germany District Court Wuerzburg HRB 7004 General Management: Ralf Lother, Paul ter Grote, Ellen de Jager-Satter, Rudy Mareel, Linda Harty DISCLAIMER: This information and any attachments contained in this email message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, forwarding, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return email, and delete the original message immediately. --------------------------------------------------------------------- This message contains confidential and proprietary information of the sender, and is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by any other person is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the e-mail sender immediately, and delete the original message without making a copy.

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:44:34 +0100 From: "Gerber, Oliver" <Oliver.Gerber@viasyshc.com> Message-ID: <54566F2628DDC041AE1861028FA2030E01ADC34D@MS-DE001.viasyshc.com> | Is there any possibility to compile the tzcode under Windows (especially | Visual Studio 2005/2008) It is C code, and the source is available, so of course it is possible. Whether someone else has already done the work and is willing to make it available is a different question... I see nothing in zic that should be difficult to make work in anything even half close to a standard C environment (and C is in a sense just a generate case of C++) so I doubt you'd have must work to do to convert it. For special case usage, as you have, you don't need almost any of its flexibility, so you could just trash all the option processing and such. It may be easier if you use cygwin (or M$'s equivalent of that) but I doubt that even that much of a bending to unix lookalike is needed for this. kre