On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Michael G. Schabert wrote:

> Umm, if they're not obeying DST, then they're STILL in a standard timezone
> :). Also, when they're off-by-one, they're STILL in a standard timezone.
> That's the beauty of 24 time zones with a 24-hour clock ;-). No matter what
> hour you proclaim it to be, you're still in a regular timezone.
> 
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> 
> Bill& Paul's suggestion of off-by-30 & off-by-15 time is the only exception
> that really would need a separate timezone file.

Not quite. The time zone files contain when an area switches to summer
time. Thus different places that switch need different files.

> Just doing a quick glance, I see that there are around 150 files to cover
> the Americas!!! That's rediculous.

How many of these files are hard linked together? hard links don't take up
extra space on disk.

Take care,

Bill