wok annotate tzdata/description.txt @ rev 19760
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author | Alexander Medvedev <devl547@gmail.com> |
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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: |
al@18982 | 8 |
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. |