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+# pytz
+
+Brings the IANA tz database into Python. This library allows accurate and
+cross platform timezone calculations.
+
+pytz contains generated code, and this branch generates it. The actual
+pytz code and documentation can be found in the src/ directory. More
+information about pytz can be found in src/README.txt
+
+Release process:
+
+ 1) Untar upstream tarballs into elsie/src
+ 2) Update VERSION & OLSON_VERSION in src/pytz/__init__.py, and EXPECTED_VERSION in
+ src/pytz/tests/test_tzinfo.py
+ 3) make test
+ 4) make dist
+