Handling %s format strings
Philip Ross
phil.ross at gmail.com
Mon Mar 27 21:59:01 UTC 2006
Paul Eggert wrote:
> Philip Ross <phil.ross at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Take Africa/Accra as an example. Starting from 1918, this zone uses
>> the Ghana rules with a %s format string. The Ghana rules only start to
>> be defined from 1936.
>
> In this case, it's assumed that you start off in standard time, and
> that you take the rule's first abbreviation that applies to standard
> time. For your example, that's "GMT". If you inspect the 'zic'
> source code you should see that rule in action.
>
> No doubt this should be documented....
I'd read the zic man page, but hadn't got round to checking the source
in any detail.
I'll have a go at implementing this.
Thanks,
Phil
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