From: "Olson, Arthur David (NCI)" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:44:04 -0400

I don't see any tools that use the latitude/longitude info in the zone.tab file. Surely after putting all the effort to gather the info, someone has something to use it. What am I missing?

I vaguely recall that the Red Hat preferences setup uses it (along with a little map), but I don't have a handy pointer to the source code. If you find one can you please email me a pointer to it? That would be a nice thing to put into our web page. Thanks.

I'm also looking for a tool to use the historical data. tzconvert.cgi is very nice, but it suffers from the Unix epochal restrictions and doesn't work before 1970 or after about 2037.

Surely this is a property of your Unix rather than of tzconvert.cgi itself. However, I don't think the Olson code works well yet on hosts with 64-bit time_t. (I haven't used it there myself.)

Is there any other software that can handle other dates? Perhaps a little Java app?

ZoneInfo.java, perhaps? See <http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ>.