Compiling A Zone File

• The OS does not read these text files to make time calculations.
• We use the 'zic' compiler to turn them into binary files:
• zic <text-file-name>
• The resulting file will be placed in the system's standard directory (often /usr/share/timezone/), using the zone name (from the file) as the name of the resulting binary file (if there's a '/' - puts the file in a sub-directory).

Originally written by guy keren