I sometimes suggest, in postings and mail messages, that people should pick up the Olson code and database; unfortunately, I have to put it as, e.g.: The [Arthur] Olson code, available, to those with FTP access, from "elsie.nci.nih.gov", in "pub/tzcode1997a.tar.gz" (unless, by the time you see this posting, Arthur's put out another version, in which case it'll be "1997b" or something such as that), ... (to quote a recent "comp.unix.solaris" posting). "libpcap" and "tcpdump", for example, handle this by having "libpcap.tar.Z" being a symlink to the current version of the "libpcap" library, and having "tcpdump.tar.Z" being a symlink to the current version of "tcpdump"; should something similar be done for the "tzcode" and "tzdata" "tar.gz" files?