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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear Madam, dear Sir,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I understand that the historic time zone
database you maintain is the basis of calendar computations in many computer
systems and programming languages, including Linux and Tcl. We are using said
data in some of our applications. Many thanks for your effort.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please find attached a few modifications to
your tz2007k data files, so as to bring them in line with the publications of
the Arbeitsgruppe 4.41 of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt at <a
href="http://www.ptb.de/de/org/4/44/441/salt.htm">http://www.ptb.de/de/org/4/44/441/salt.htm</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The mistake in tz2007k is that the special 1945
rules for East Berlin and the German Sowjet Zone mentioned in bullet point c)
of the website above are applied to Germany in general. The modifications return
Europe/Berlin to the standard rules a) and b), and introduce a new zone
Europe/BerlinEast where a), b) and c) are applied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Cc to the PTB for information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Sebastian Wangnick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Sebastian
Wangnick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Lammersdorfer
Str. 61<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>D-52159
Roetgen/Rott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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