wok annotate tzdata/description.txt @ rev 19760

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author Alexander Medvedev <devl547@gmail.com>
date Sun Feb 19 09:20:46 2017 +0000 (2017-02-19)
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al@18982 1 The Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) contains code and data
al@18982 2 that represent the history of local time for many representative locations
al@18982 3 around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by
al@18982 4 political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and daylight-saving
al@18982 5 rules.
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al@18982 7 Historical local time information has been included here to:
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al@18982 9 * provide a compendium of data about the history of civil time that is useful
al@18982 10 even if not 100% accurate;
al@18982 11 * give an idea of the variety of local time rules that have existed in the
al@18982 12 past and thus an idea of the variety that may be expected in the future;
al@18982 13 * provide a test of the generality of the local time rule description system.