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<DIV><SPAN class=840021113-29042002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
zic manual page notes that</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=840021113-29042002> <FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Input lines are made up of fields.<BR>
Fields are separated from one another by any number of white space
characters.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=840021113-29042002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>so
there's nothing "wild" about the format of the files.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>--ado</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2><BR> </DIV></FONT></SPAN>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Tony Blackmon
[mailto:tblackmon@wilbursmith.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 26, 2002 2:54
PM<BR><B>To:</B> tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov<BR><B>Subject:</B> still more problems
with the formatting in the tz datafiles<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>i am finding more and more of these. each header
comment is clearly marked with tabs delimiting the file, but when you get into
the guts of the data some of these tabs are spaces.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>how do you parse the tzdata text files if the
formatting is not correct?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>as i stated before, i am working under a windows
environment, but still want to handle timezone conversion and client timezone
selection using the tzcode data. it perplexes me as to how this all works with
the data files formatted so wildly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>is it meant to be this way or is all of this
accidental or unnoticed?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--fluid</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>