The files ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1997a.tar.gz and ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1997a.tar.gz are now available. These include Paul Eggert's Antarctica (and other changes). I've finessed the "getopt" issue by checking against both -1 and EOF (regardless of POSIX, SunOS 4.1.1's manual says -1 is returned while SunOS 5.5's manual says EOF is returned). --ado