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<p>PS: Also for your country Netherlands, the zone Europe/Amsterdam
is not correct for all towns.</p>
<p>We use 9 different tables to represent pre-1946 time zone history
for Netherlands.<br>
The problem there is the different beginning and end of German
occupation in Worldwars I and II, for some small pockets of Dutch
area.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09.11.19 12:51, Jean via tz wrote:<br>
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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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