<div dir="ltr"><div><div>> The warning is there because of POSIX has a 6 char limit, so we can't<br>
> just excempt that from the cap.<br><br></div>And Unicode is out, so -0444½ won't do.-)<br><br></div> @dashdashado<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Derick Rethans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tz@derickrethans.nl" target="_blank">tz@derickrethans.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Tim Parenti wrote:<br>
<br>
> On 1 March 2017 at 16:42, Brian Inglis <<a href="mailto:Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca">Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.<wbr>ca</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Looks like it stores the over long abbreviation.<br>
> > So should probably patch:<br>
> ><br>
> > --- tz/releases/tzdata2017a/africa 2017-02-23 00:37:19.000000000 -0700<br>
> > +++ tz/releases/tzdata2017b/africa 2017-03-01 14:36:43.479882200 -0700<br>
> > @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte<br>
> > # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]<br>
> > Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882<br>
> > -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean<br>
> > Time<br>
> > - -0:44:30 - -004430 1972 May<br>
> > + -0:44:30 - -0044 1972 May<br>
> > 0:00 - GMT<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> The above patch would be incorrect, though. It would be more correct to<br>
> increase the allowed max abbreviation length. (Even better, numerical<br>
> "abbreviations" like this should just be exempted from the caps, since they<br>
> can technically be of almost any length, even though this is the longest<br>
> they'll be in practice.)<br>
<br>
</span>The warning is there because of POSIX has a 6 char limit, so we can't<br>
just excempt that from the cap.<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
Derick<br>
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