[tz] tabs vs spaces

Alan Perry alanp at snowmoose.com
Thu May 2 21:08:33 UTC 2013


On 5/2/13 1:05 PM, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013, at 15:46, Tobias Conradi wrote:
>> Where is the set of what you call "timezone files" defined?
> We have already said multiple times that we are talking about the files
> which are used as inputs to the zic program.
>
> They are not discussed in the Theory file. The format is described in
> the manpage for zic (the filename of this manpage is zic.8 - there may
> be a zic.8.txt in your distribution; I can't connect to the
> "ftp.iana.org" server you are using)
zic.8.txt is in the 2013c distribution.

There are links to the latest tzcode and tzdata from 
http://www.iana.org/time-zones.

alan
>
> I cannot possibly believe that you did not know this; you seem to be
> being deliberately disingenuous.



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