[tz] suggestions for potential code improvements?

[Paul Eggert]

Jonathan Lennox wrote:
> clock_settime isn't actually that portable; notably, Mac OS X doesn't
> implement it.

Ouch, thanks, I didn't know that.  Let's simplify things further and remove all 
the code that tries to set the date.  Setting the date is not germane to the tz 
project; the code is there only because it was in 4.2BSD, and that is not a 
particularly strong reason nowadays.  Proposed patch attached.
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