[tz] tabs vs spaces

Tobias Conradi mail.2012 at tobiasconradi.com
Sat May 4 18:16:36 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Guy Harris <guy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On May 1, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Tobias Conradi <mail.2012 at tobiasconradi.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the benefit of having more than one tab or one space as one separator?
>
> It lets the columns line up naturally for human reading.
>
Seems not so for the TZ column with preceding tab, using Google Chrome at

https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/188b29d9664cfcf0384e515c69f94a2dfc27c673#zone.tab

while Google Chrome at
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/zone.tab
aligns the TZ column well.

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