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-: > OTOH, ISTR that the timezone files originate elsewhere, not with djgpp.
-: 
-: They are from the code and data one can get from
-: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/.

Thanks, I will have a look at this.

-: > If so, the makefile might have to be patched every time the timezone
-: > sources are updated
-: 
-: Why is that?  What am I missing?

The TZ makefile (zoneinfo/src/makefile) doesn't look like a djgpp makefile.
I assumed it came as part of a TZ distro and would therefore be overwritten
(and require re-patching) whenever the TZ distro was updated.  But I will
have a look at the above url before speculating further.