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<font face="Arial">Hello,<br>
I hope i can ask this question here. I am the programmer of a
popular freeware astrology program (planetdance).<br>
I have been using the data from the Olson database by means of a
script using zdump on linux to get me data for a period of years
for all timezones.<br>
The method works well enough but i find the data is not uptodate.
For instance Morocco dropped it's DST in 2018 and zdump still
happily reports DST for the next years.<br>
I have been looking for a way to get the uptodate Olson data into
my program for many hours, also looked at the official way of
compiling the data but i fear that is a bit too difficult for me.
There are also commercial solutions but as i am not able nor
willing to pay 500 / year to a company and a product i don't like
so that's out of the question.<br>
So i'm asking for help here. Maybe there is some linux
distribution that does have an uptodate tzdata? Or any other
means?<br>
<br>
ps. There are other problems, like the America/Chicago timezone
which is notorious for giving false results for years before 1970
but i guess it's too much asked, i'd be happy if you could help me
with uptodate data.<br>
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Thanks. Jean<br>
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