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<h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1>
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Please send corrections to this web page to the
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C Library</a> used in
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<a href="http://www.linux.org/"><abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux</a>,
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<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>,
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<a href="http://openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>,
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<a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>,
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title="DJ's GNU Programming Platform">DJGPP</abbr></a>,
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<a href="http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/">AIX</a>,
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<a href="http://h71000.www7.hp.com/">OpenVMS</a>,
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<a href="http://h30097.www3.hp.com/">Tru64</a>, and
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<a href="http://www.sco.com/products/unixware/">UnixWare</a>.</p>
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<a href="http://sco.com/products/unixware">UnixWare</a>.</p>
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Each location in the database represents a national region where all
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clocks keeping local time have agreed since 1970.
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the location's full name, e.g., <code>TZ="America/New_York"</code>.</p>
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In the <code>tz</code> database's
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<a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/"><abbr
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<a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub"><abbr
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title="File Transfer Protocol">FTP</abbr> distribution</a>
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the code is in the file <code>tzcode<var>C</var>.tar.gz</code>,
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similarly, the data are in <code>tzdata<var>D</var>.tar.gz</code>,
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The following shell commands download
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<code>README</code> file for what to do next.</p>
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The data are by no means authoritative. If you find errors, please
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send changes to the <a href="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone
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mailing list</a>. You can also <a
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href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz">full archive of old
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messages</a> (in gzip compressed format), or retrieve <a
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mirror</a>.</p>
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timezone information for all countries</a> displays tables of DST rules.
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Daylight Saving</a>. The privately-maintained <a
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<abbr title="Barycentric Dynamic Time">TDB</abbr>.
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<a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html">Time
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Scales</a> goes into more detail, particularly for historical variants.</li>
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<abbr title="International Atomic Time">TAI</abbr>,
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<abbr>TDB</abbr>, <abbr>TDT</abbr> and
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Space Flight - Reference Systems - Time Conventions</a>
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scales used by each landed mission on Mars.</li>
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dedicated not only to leap seconds but to precise time and frequency
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in general. It covers the state of the art in amateur timekeeping, and
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how the art has progressed over the past few decades.</li>
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International Earth Rotation Service, the committee that decides
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when leap seconds occur.</li>
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href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs">Leap
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Second Discussion List</a> covers <a
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href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.november99.pdf">McCarthy
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and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>,
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discussed further in
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<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/metrologia-leapsecond.pdf">The
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<a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/">The
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Schema: Datatypes - dateTime</a> specifies a format inspired by
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<abbr>ISO</abbr> 8601 that is in common use in XML data.</li>
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on the Internet: Timestamps</a> (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 3339)
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specifies an <abbr>ISO</abbr> 8601
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profile for use in new Internet
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protocols.</li>
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formats.</li>
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Best of Dates, the Worst of Dates</a> covers many problems encountered
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by software developers when handling dates and time stamps.</li>
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<li>The <a
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French translations for "Eastern European Summer Time", "<abbr
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title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</abbr>", and
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"Bucharest". <a
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href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/names.zone.html">By-Type
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href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/names.metazone.html">By-Type
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<abbr>ICU</abbr> contains a mechanism for using this data.</li>
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<li>Alphabetic time zone abbreviations should not be used as unique
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identifiers for <abbr>UTC</abbr> offsets as they are ambiguous in
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<h2>Related indexes</h2>
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<li><a href="tz-art.htm">Time and the Arts</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://dmoz.org/Reference/Time/">Open Directory -
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<li><a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Time/">Open Directory -
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Reference: Time</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Time/">Google Directory
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- Reference > Time</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/">Yahoo!
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<li><a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time">Yahoo!
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Directory > Science > Measurements and Units > Time</a></li>
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