Date Countries Switch to/from DST

[Bill Seymour]

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