Date Countries Switch to/from DST

[O'Neil, Bonnie]

Wow!! Thanks so very much!

Bonnie K. O'Neil
CBIP, CDMP
Enterprise Data Architect
Travelport Global Technology Solutions
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-----Original Message-----
From: billseymour at gmail.com [mailto:billseymour at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Bill Seymour
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 2:29 PM
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Re: Date Countries Switch to/from DST

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:15 AM, O'Neil, Bonnie
<bonnie.oneil at travelport.com> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> I am also a Timezone newbie.
>
> I need to get a dump of the tz database for all countries in the world,
> which timezone they are in, and what date they switch on/off DST.  I'm not
> interested in getting real time dates; I just need a refresh of the database
> periodically.
>

You can download the tz database at http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm .

Mostly for my own benefit, I wrote a little paper about how to read tz's
source files:  http://www.cstdbill.com/tzdb/db.html .

Hope that helps,

--Bill

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