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+README for the tz distribution
+
+"Where do I set the hands of the clock?" -- Les Tremayne as The King
+"Oh that--you can set them any place you want." -- Frank Baxter as The Scientist
+					(from the Bell System film "About Time")
+
+The Time Zone Database (called tz, tzdb or zoneinfo) contains code and
+data that represent the history of local time for many representative
+locations around the globe.  It is updated periodically to reflect
+changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets,
+and daylight-saving rules.
+
+See <https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html> or the
+file tz-link.html for how to acquire the code and data.  Once acquired,
+read the comments in the file 'Makefile' and make any changes needed
+to make things right for your system, especially if you are using some
+platform other than GNU/Linux.  Then run the following commands,
+substituting your desired installation directory for "$HOME/tzdir":
+
+	make TOPDIR=$HOME/tzdir install
+	$HOME/tzdir/usr/bin/zdump -v America/Los_Angeles
+
+See the file tz-how-to.html for examples of how to read the data files.
+
+This database of historical local time information has several goals:
+
+ * Provide a compendium of data about the history of civil time that
+   is useful even if not 100% accurate.
+
+ * Give an idea of the variety of local time rules that have existed
+   in the past and thus may be expected in the future.
+
+ * Test the generality of the local time rule description system.
+
+The information in the time zone data files is by no means authoritative;
+fixes and enhancements are welcome.  Please see the file CONTRIBUTING
+for details.
+
+Thanks to these Time Zone Caballeros who've made major contributions to the
+time conversion package: Keith Bostic; Bob Devine; Paul Eggert; Robert Elz;
+Guy Harris; Mark Horton; John Mackin; and Bradley White.  Thanks also to
+Michael Bloom, Art Neilson, Stephen Prince, John Sovereign, and Frank Wales
+for testing work, and to Gwillim Law for checking local mean time data.
+Thanks in particular to Arthur David Olson, the project's founder and first
+maintainer, to whom the time zone community owes the greatest debt of all.
+None of them are responsible for remaining errors.
+
+-----
+
+This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2009-05-17 by
+Arthur David Olson.  The other files in this distribution are either
+public domain or BSD licensed; see the file LICENSE for details.