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From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Israel Zone Info File
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 11 May 89 07:18:19 GMT
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Original-Date: 4 May 89 07:43:03 GMT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 282, message 6 of 19

>The following is the correct zic file for the years 1989-2009 ...

Thanks.  Note that the SunOS time zone code and data files are derived
from the public-domain code and data files written by Arthur Olson and a
cast of ones, and has also been adopted by Berkeley for 4.xBSD and,
apparently, by Apple for A/UX (maybe by other UniSoft portees) and, I
think, by CMU for Mach (definitely by NeXT) - with more adoptees perhaps
to come.  As such, updates to these files deserve a wider audience than
just Sun-Spots; if you have access to Usenet, you should post them to
"comp.sources.bugs". 

In addition, you might want to forward them to Arthur Olson at
"ado@ncifcrf.gov" (he does read Sun-Spots, but just in case a posting
doesn't arrive...).  To quote from the README file for his most recent
posting of this stuff:

	The information in the time zone data files is by no means
	authoritative; if you know that the rules are different from
	those in a file, by all means feel free to change file (and
	please send the changed version to ado@ncifcrf.gov for use
	in the future).  Europeans take note!

(Yes, the most recent posting has been picked up by Sun for incorporation
into 4.1.)