glibc/timezone
Paul Eggert 21fbc0a193 Call "CST" a time zone abbreviation, not a name
In documentation, call strings like "CST" time zone abbreviations, not
time zone names.  This terminology is more precise, and is what tzdb uses.
A string like "CST" is ambiguous and does not fully name a time zone.
2023-06-22 13:49:09 -07:00
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testdata
africa
antarctica
asia
australasia
backward
etcetera
europe
factory
iso3166.tab
leapseconds
Makefile
northamerica
pacificnew
private.h
README
simplebackw
solar87
solar88
solar89
southamerica
systemv
test-tz.c
tst-bz28707.c
tst-bz29951.c
tst-timezone.c
tst-tzset.c
tzfile.h
tzselect.ksh
version
yearistype
zdump.c
zic.c
zone.tab

The files
	zic.c zdump.c tzfile.h private.h tzselect.ksh version
come from the tzcode package by Arthur David Olson et.al.
The 'version' file specifies which tzcode version was used.

The files
	africa antarctica asia australasia europe
	northamerica southamerica pacificnew etcetera factory
	backward systemv solar87 solar88 solar89
	iso3166.tab zone.tab leapseconds yearistype
come from the tzdata package by Arthur David Olson et.al.
except that its 'yearistype.sh' file is renamed to 'yearistype'.
These tzdata files were taken from tzdata 2009i and have not been
updated since, as they do not affect glibc installation and are
present only for regression testing.

Please also see: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SharedSourceFiles

These packages may be found at https://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/.
Commentary should be addressed to tz@iana.org.

The subdirectory testdata contains manually edited data files for
regression testing purposes.