OK, I run my timezone database under windows, so, after a couple of tries, I got the code I downloaded from the TZ database site to compile under windows. Now what? I looked at the HTML files and there's no readme or anything else that looks like documentation on how to use it.
Unfortunately, Windows has no native support for the tzinfo database. The Windows OS family uses a proprietary, registry-based pseudo-database that doesn't have much historical data-and even then, only on Windows Vista, 7, and 2008. Microsoft updates this data through Windows Update, so if you don't have that feature enabled, you might show up for all your appointments an hour late during the first week of November. (j/k) Individual Windows applications may have their own support, however. I'll let you know about the 3rd-party library I use off-list. David Braverman http://www.inner-drive.com/ From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Thom Hehl Sent: Friday 21 October 2011 6:52 AM To: tz@iana.org Subject: [tz] Newbie OK, I run my timezone database under windows, so, after a couple of tries, I got the code I downloaded from the TZ database site to compile under windows. Now what? I looked at the HTML files and there's no readme or anything else that looks like documentation on how to use it.
Microsoft also provides timezone updates via hot fixes that you need to download explicitely. You can find the various notices at HYPERLINK "blocked::http://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/"http://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/ and also HYPERLINK "blocked::http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387"http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387 -Alain _____ From: David Braverman [mailto:david@braverman.org] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 8:33 AM To: Thom Hehl; tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] Newbie Unfortunately, Windows has no native support for the tzinfo database. The Windows OS family uses a proprietary, registry-based pseudo-database that doesn't have much historical data-and even then, only on Windows Vista, 7, and 2008. Microsoft updates this data through Windows Update, so if you don't have that feature enabled, you might show up for all your appointments an hour late during the first week of November. (j/k) Individual Windows applications may have their own support, however. I'll let you know about the 3rd-party library I use off-list. David Braverman http://www.inner-drive.com/ From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Thom Hehl Sent: Friday 21 October 2011 6:52 AM To: tz@iana.org Subject: [tz] Newbie OK, I run my timezone database under windows, so, after a couple of tries, I got the code I downloaded from the TZ database site to compile under windows. Now what? I looked at the HTML files and there's no readme or anything else that looks like documentation on how to use it.
All up, please refer to HTTP://www.Microsoft.com/time for more information. ________________________________ From: Alain Petit Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 6:32 AM To: David Braverman; Thom Hehl; tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] Newbie Microsoft also provides timezone updates via hot fixes that you need to download explicitely. You can find the various notices at http://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/ and also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387 -Alain ________________________________ From: David Braverman [mailto:david@braverman.org] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 8:33 AM To: Thom Hehl; tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] Newbie Unfortunately, Windows has no native support for the tzinfo database. The Windows OS family uses a proprietary, registry-based pseudo-database that doesn’t have much historical data—and even then, only on Windows Vista, 7, and 2008. Microsoft updates this data through Windows Update, so if you don’t have that feature enabled, you might show up for all your appointments an hour late during the first week of November. (j/k) Individual Windows applications may have their own support, however. I’ll let you know about the 3rd-party library I use off-list. David Braverman http://www.inner-drive.com/ From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Thom Hehl Sent: Friday 21 October 2011 6:52 AM To: tz@iana.org Subject: [tz] Newbie OK, I run my timezone database under windows, so, after a couple of tries, I got the code I downloaded from the TZ database site to compile under windows. Now what? I looked at the HTML files and there’s no readme or anything else that looks like documentation on how to use it.
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Thom Hehl wrote:
OK, I run my timezone database under windows, so, after a couple of tries, I got the code I downloaded from the TZ database site to compile under windows.
Now what? I looked at the HTML files and there's no readme or anything else that looks like documentation on how to use it.
Most of the documentation is in Unix man page format. If you can't read man pages under Windows, look at the corresponding text files (e.g. tzfile.5.txt instead of just tzfile.5). date.1 documents a command line utility that can display or change the system date and time in any known timezone, but it probably won't work under Windows. newtzset.3, newctime.3, newstrftime.3, and time2posiz.3 document library functions that are callable from C programs. Some parts of these may be usable under Windows, but other parts rely on operating system features that will probably be different. tzfile.5 documents the format of the compiled binary timezone files. zic.8 documents the command line untility that compiles the human-readable specifications of time zone rules into binary format. zdump.8 documents the command lile utility that extracts and displays information from compiled time zone descriptions. tzselect.8 documents an interactive ksh script that can help users to choose time zone settings. --apb (Alan Barrett)
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