tz file format

[Mark Rodrigues]

Hi Russell,



I developed an open source .NET API which you might find helpful with your C# application which is available at:

http://www.codeplex.com/zoneinfo



I have a codeproject article about it as well at:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/locale/zoneinfo_dotnet_api.aspx



You can read through the code if you are interested in seeing how I interpreted this information.



Kind regards



Mark Rodrigues

Subject: RE: tz file format
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 01:55:29 -0400
From: Billy.Bennett at netapp.com
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov








Russ,
 
I think you'd be better off parsing the compiled data, it's 
a lot more consistent.
 
Thanks,
=Billy 
Bennett  



From: russ [mailto:russell.sayers at gmail.com] 

Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 11:53 PM
To: 
tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: tz file format


Hi,

I hope i'm not wasting your time.  I'm attempting to 
read the tz database into a c# application, and I'm not sure how to interpret 
this entry:

Zone Australia/Hobart    
9:49:16    -    LMT    1895 
Sep
            
10:00    -    EST    1916 Oct 1 
2:00
            
10:00    1:00    EST    1917 
Feb
            
10:00    Aus    EST    
1967
            
10:00    AT    EST

What is the significance 
of the "1:00" on the row ending in "1917 Feb".  Do I just add this to the 
10:00 offset?

Thanks,
Russell


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