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1−timezone-olson version 0.1.0
1+# timezone-olson
2+
3+On Hackage: [timezone-olson](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-olson)
24
35This package provides a parser and renderer for binary Olson timezone
46files whose format is specified by the tzfile(5) man page on Unix-like
57systems. For more information about this format, see
6−<http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm>. Functions are provided for
7−converting the parsed data into 'TimeZoneSeries' objects from the
8−timezone-series package. On many platforms, binary Olson timezone
8+[the IANA timezone database site](https://www.iana.org/time-zones).
9+
10+Functions are provided for
11+converting the parsed data into `TimeZoneSeries` objects from the
12+[timezone-series](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-series)
13+package. On many platforms, binary Olson timezone
914files suitable for use with this package are available in the
10−directory /usr/share/zoneinfo and its subdirectories on your computer.
15+directory `/usr/share/zoneinfo` and its subdirectories on your computer.
1116
12−This version of timezone-olson is highly experimental. Expect there
13−to be bugs, and do not rely on any stability of the exposed
14−interfaces.
17+See also the
18+[timezone-olson-th](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-olson-th)
19+package for a way to include timezone informaton from a binary Olson
20+timezone file at compile time.
21+
22+Copyright (c) 2010-2015 Yitzchak Gale. All rights reserved.
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16−Copyright (c) 2010 Yitzchak Gale. All rights reserved.
1724For licensing information, see the BSD3-style license in the file
1825LICENSE that was originally distributed by the author together with
1926this file.
2027
21−This package is part of the time-ng project:
22−http://projects.haskell.org/time-ng/
23−
24−Send suggestions, bug reports, and patches to:
25−yitz@community.haskell.org
26−
27−INSTALLATION:
28−
29−To install the latest version of this package, make sure that
30−cabal-install is installed on your system (it is if you have installed
31−the Haskell Platform) and type the commands:
32−
33−cabal update
34−cabal install timezone-olson
28+This package is part of the [time-ng project](http://projects.haskell.org/time-ng/).
3529
36−TESTING UTILITIES:
30+## Testing utilities
3731
3832This package also provides two Haskell files, each of which can be
3933compiled into a command-line utility that might be helpful for testing