wok-current annotate tzdata/description.txt @ rev 25397
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| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Tue Aug 02 10:30:16 2022 +0100 (2022-08-02) |
| parents | d834fc8cdea0 |
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| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 1 The Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) contains code |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 2 and data that represent the history of local time for many |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 3 representative locations around the globe. It is updated periodically |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 4 to reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 5 UTC offsets, and daylight-saving rules. |
| al@18982 | 6 |
| al@18982 | 7 Historical local time information has been included here to: |
| al@18982 | 8 |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 9 * provide a compendium of data about the history of civil time that |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 10 is useful even if not 100% accurate; |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 11 * give an idea of the variety of local time rules that have existed |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 12 in the past and thus an idea of the variety that may be expected |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 13 in the future; |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 14 * provide a test of the generality of the local time rule description |
| Hans-G?nter@25376 | 15 system. |