From: Craig Latta <Craig.Latta at NetJam.ORG>
> > Also, Squeak in the future may well have a good timezones library...
>
> I posit there is no such thing. Timezones are defined politically, subject
to no central authority, as far as I can tell.
>
> > ...the appropriate thing to access off the network is the database of
> > timezones, not the current offset.
>
> Assuming the library is kept correct continuously (not easy), then this
would amount to the same thing. If it weren't, it wouldn't be useful.

There is a quite good database of Time Zone information which is used in
almost all Unixes. It is updated regularly; there have been 10 releases so
far this year.

Data can be found at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1999j.tar.gz

Code can be found at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1999i.tar.gz

Given time (which I haven't found), I would like to incorporate this into
Squeak. Once the code is ported from C to Smalltalk, it should be easy to
import new data versions.

Regards,

Eric Ulevik