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* Copyright (c) 2003-2007, International Business Machines
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* Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
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**********************************************************************
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* Author: Alan Liu
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* Created: August 18 2003
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* Since: ICU 2.8
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**********************************************************************
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Note: this directory currently contains tzcode as of tzcode2006h.tar.gz
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with localtime.c patches from tzcode2006i.tar.gz
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OVERVIEW
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This file describes the tools in icu/source/tools/tzcode
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The purpose of these tools is to process the zoneinfo or "Olson" time
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zone database into a form usable by ICU4C (release 2.8 and later).
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Unlike earlier releases, ICU4C 2.8 supports historical time zone
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behavior, as well as the full set of Olson compatibility IDs.
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References:
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ICU4C: http://www.icu-project.org/
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Olson: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
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ICU4C vs. ICU4J
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For ICU releases >= 2.8, both ICU4C and ICU4J implement full
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historical time zones, based on Olson data. The implementations in C
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and Java are somewhat different. The C implementation is a
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self-contained implementation, whereas ICU4J uses the underlying JDK
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1.3 or 1.4 time zone implementation.
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Older versions of ICU (C and Java <= 2.6) implement a "present day
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snapshot". This only reflects current time zone behavior, without
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historical variation. Furthermore, it lacks the full set of Olson
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compatibility IDs.
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BACKGROUND
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The zoneinfo or "Olson" time zone package is used by various systems
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to describe the behavior of time zones. The package consists of
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several parts. E.g.:
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Index of ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
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classictzcode.tar.gz 65 KB 12/10/1994 12:00:00 AM
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classictzdata.tar.gz 67 KB 12/10/1994 12:00:00 AM
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e5+57.tar.gz 2909 KB 3/22/1993 12:00:00 AM
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iso8601.ps.gz 16 KB 7/27/1996 12:00:00 AM
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leastsq.xls 49 KB 4/24/1997 12:00:00 AM
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ltroff.tar.gz 36 KB 7/16/1993 12:00:00 AM
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pi.shar.gz 4 KB 3/9/1994 12:00:00 AM
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tzarchive.gz 3412 KB 8/18/2003 4:00:00 AM
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tzcode2003a.tar.gz 98 KB 3/24/2003 2:32:00 PM
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tzdata2003a.tar.gz 132 KB 3/24/2003 2:32:00 PM
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ICU only uses the tzdataYYYYV.tar.gz files,
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where YYYY is the year and V is the version letter ('a'...'z').
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This directory has partial contents of tzcode checked into ICU
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HOWTO
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0. Note, these instructions will only work on POSIX type systems.
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1. Obtain the current versions of tzdataYYYYV.tar.gz (aka `tzdata') from
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the FTP site given above. Either manually download or use wget:
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$ cd {path_to}/icu/source/tools/tzcode
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$ wget "ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata*.tar.gz"
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2. Copy only one tzdata*.tar.gz file into the icu/source/tools/tzcode/
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directory (this directory).
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*** Make sure you only have ONE FILE named tzdata*.tar.gz in the
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directory.
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3. Build ICU normally. You will see a notice "updating zoneinfo.txt..."
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### Following instructions for ICU maintainers only ###
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4. Obtain the current version of tzcodeYYYY.tar.gz from the FTP site to
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this directory.
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5. Run make target "check-dump". This target extract makes the original
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tzcode and compile the original tzdata with icu supplemental data
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(icuzones). Then it makes zdump / icuzdump and dump all time
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transitions for all ICU timezone to files under zdumpout / icuzdumpout
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directory. When they produce different results, the target returns
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the error.
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6. Don't forget to check in the new zoneinfo.txt (from its location at
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{path_to}/icu/source/data/misc/zoneinfo.txt) into SVN.
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