[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] Support %z in Zone formats

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Wed Aug 12 00:44:12 UTC 2015


Phil Ross wrote:
> Therefore, won't zic be generating + for west of UTC and − for east instead of
> the documented behaviour?

Thanks, and you're right, it's backwards.  Also, the DST offset is missing.  I 
don't know how zic.c got it wrong -- I did test it, but apparently I installed 
something other than what I tested.  Good thing tzdata isn't using this feature 
yet.   Proposed further patch attached.

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