newbie here

[Paul Eggert]

"Wendel Schultz" <wendel at accessdata.com> writes:

> I need some sort of "orientation" material.  Any suggestions?

You can get some advice here:

http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm

but for coding I'm afraid your best bet is to read the source code
and/or documentation mentioned in the above link.

You can get preformatted man pages from the FreeBSD site, e.g.:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zic&sektion=8
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzfile&sektion=5