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annotate tzdata/description.txt @ rev 22539
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1 The Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) contains code and data
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2 that represent the history of local time for many representative locations
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3 around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by
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4 political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and daylight-saving
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5 rules.
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7 Historical local time information has been included here to:
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9 * provide a compendium of data about the history of civil time that is useful
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10 even if not 100% accurate;
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11 * give an idea of the variety of local time rules that have existed in the
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12 past and thus an idea of the variety that may be expected in the future;
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13 * provide a test of the generality of the local time rule description system.
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