Vzic indicates missing tz rules
Paul Eggert
eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Fri Dec 1 06:49:18 UTC 2006
Andy McDonald <andy_tz at stemhaus.com> writes:
> Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
> Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S
> ...
>
> Zone America/Inuvik -8:54:52 - LMT 1884
> -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00
In situations like these, zic assumes that standard time is in effect
before the first Rule line takes affect, so it uses the first
standard-time rule letter it sees. At least, that's my understanding
-- I haven't looked at the code recently.
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