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 There has been a recent change in the library design.  If you are trying to migrate from the previous design, rename `day_point` to `sys_days` everywhere, and that ought to bring the number of errors down to a small roar.
 
 `"date.h"` and `"tz.h"` are now proposed for standardization here:  http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p0355r0.html
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