[tz] Should tzfile.5 list the time zone designations field more explicitly?

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Wed Mar 17 17:35:35 UTC 2021


On 17/03/2021 17:20, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 3/12/21 3:41 AM, Ian Abbott via tz wrote:
>> The description of the local time types entries mentions the array of
>> time zone abbreviation bytes in passing, but that probably deserves
>> its own list item.
> 
> Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached proposed patch for it.

Thanks for that.  I noticed a small error in the description of
overlapping byte strings: "prefix" should be "suffix".

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