Timezones handling

[Attila Lendvai]

> @Attila: I was never sure enough to submit this as a patch, but it has
> worked for us for many years. Maybe you want to merge it and some of the
> other changes too.

thanks!

note though that Daniel Lowe is the maintainer who can commit the
changes in the new git repo.

i'm not working much on local-time these days.

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