[tz] tz abbr too long in 2017a Africa/Monrovia [was: zic throws warning for 2007a]

[Tim Parenti]

On 1 March 2017 at 16:42, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis at systematicsw.ab.ca>
wrote:

> Looks like it stores the over long abbreviation.
> So should probably patch:
>
> --- tz/releases/tzdata2017a/africa      2017-02-23 00:37:19.000000000 -0700
> +++ tz/releases/tzdata2017b/africa      2017-03-01 14:36:43.479882200 -0700
> @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte
>  # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
>  Zone   Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 -      LMT     1882
>                         -0:43:08 -      MMT     1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean
> Time
> -                       -0:44:30 -      -004430 1972 May
> +                       -0:44:30 -      -0044   1972 May
>                          0:00   -       GMT
>

The above patch would be incorrect, though.  It would be more correct to
increase the allowed max abbreviation length.  (Even better, numerical
"abbreviations" like this should just be exempted from the caps, since they
can technically be of almost any length, even though this is the longest
they'll be in practice.)

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Tim Parenti
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