From: Steven R. Loomis [mailto:srl@jtcsv.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:32 PM

http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/

Thanks for letting me know about this. Here's a draft description of ICU's use of tz; please let me know of any problems. <li><a href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International Components for Unicode (ICU)</a> contains a C/C++ library for internationalization that has a compiler from <samp>tz</samp> source into an ICU-specific format. ICU is freely available under a BSD-style license.</li> By the way do you know about Joda Time? Perhaps you could use it in the Java side of ICU. Here's what I was planning to add for it: <li><a href="http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/">Joda Time - Java date and time API</a> contains a class <code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles <code>tz</code> source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time is freely available under a BSD-style license.</li>