[tz] Troll throws zic for a loop

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Mar 20 06:31:21 UTC 2014


Thanks for the Troll station info 
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-March/020705.html>. 
Unfortunately, when I tried to encode Troll's unusual timekeeping 
practices into standard tz data format (see attached file), the shell 
command "zic test.tzi" complained '"test.tzi", line 8: too many 
transitions?! (rule from "test.tzi", line 2)'.  I guess this is some 
sort of limitation in either zic or the tz binary file format.  I hope 
Arthur David Olson can find some free time to look into it.
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Mar	 1	1:00u	1:00	CET
Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Mar	lastSun	1:00u	2:00	CEST
Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00u	1:00	CET
Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Nov	 7	1:00u	0:00	UTC
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone Antarctica/Troll	0	-	zzz	2005 Feb 11
     			0:00	Troll	%s


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