<div dir="ltr"><div>In my tests, adding a new Zone line for "America/./New_York" at the end of northamerica, for example, causes the second definition of America/New_York to silently overwrite the first. Disallowing "." alongside ".." effectively requires that all paths be explicit, which allows the "duplicate zone name" error to handle the rest.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>--<br>Tim Parenti<br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 June 2014 18:55, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Tim Parenti wrote:<br>
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Shouldn't zic *error* if a component is equal to "." or ".."<br>
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I can see an argument for an error if a component is "..", but why is "." a problem? Can you give a problem scenario involving "."?<br>
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