Time zone confusion and implementation hints

[Alan Barrett]

On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Yves Goergen wrote:
> Could somebody assist me in building zic for Windows?

If you post sufficient details about the problems you encounter, then it
is likely that somebody could help.

> I didn't know what zic does, I didn't know the format of
> those generated files nor where the specification of the input files is,

The format of the input is documented in the zic(8) man page.  The
format of the output is documented in the tzfile(5) man page.

--apb (Alan Barrett)