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localtime.c is a stripped-down version of that from tzcode, from
http://www.iana.org/time-zones, converted to use a 64-bit time_t on
all platforms. Apart from removing unused code and merging in the
parts of private.h which are needed, the other main changes are
- to use environment variable TZDIR to point to the zoneinfo files, and
failing that, R_HOME/share/zoneinfo.
- to call getTZinfo() to get the default timezone if TZ is unset.
strftime.c is a stripped-down version of that from tzcode, using the
system version for locale-dependent day/month/am/pm names.
zoneinfo.zip is formed by installing tzdata on a system with zic, and
zipping up the results, after adding a file VERSION giving the
version. (The binary databases are byte streams, and so do not depend
on the architecture. There are some comments about whether time_t is
signed, which it is on all sensible platforms. This is only used with
R's implemntation, where time_t is int_fast64_t, hence signed.)
To remake it, download the current version of tzdataXXXXx.tar.gz from
https://www.iana.org/time-zones to this directory and run
make -f Make.zi VERSION=2019c
for the appropriate version. If zic is not on the path, use something like
make -f Make.zi VERSION=2019c ZIC=/usr/sbin/zic
NB: it seems that this needs to be done on a system with 64-bit time_t
or the catalogs will be confined to 1902-2038. (Even that did not
suffice on earlier versions of macOS.) As a sanity check, the size of
zoneinfo.zip should be about 410KB if 64-bit: a 32-bit version will be
about 280KB.