Question on abbreviations

Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov
Thu Sep 28 14:25:23 UTC 2006


In early versions of the time zone package there was no support for
"UNTIL" stuff; lines of the same type always had the same number of
fields and there was no need to cope with field count variation. This is
what's behind the documentation haziness.

Here's the minimal set of changes that might address the issue at hand.

				--ado

*** zic.8	Thu Sep 28 10:12:49 2006
--- zic.8.maybe	Thu Sep 28 10:11:12 2006
***************
*** 269,275 ****
  .nf
  .ti +.5i
  .ta \w'Zone\0\0'u +\w'Australia/Adelaide\0\0'u +\w'GMTOFF\0\0'u
+\w'RULES/SAVE\0\0'u +\w'FORMAT\0\0'u
! Zone	NAME	GMTOFF	RULES/SAVE	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
  .sp
  For example:
  .sp
--- 269,275 ----
  .nf
  .ti +.5i
  .ta \w'Zone\0\0'u +\w'Australia/Adelaide\0\0'u +\w'GMTOFF\0\0'u
+\w'RULES/SAVE\0\0'u +\w'FORMAT\0\0'u
! Zone	NAME	GMTOFF	RULES/SAVE	FORMAT	[UNTILYEAR [MONTH [DAY
[TIME]]]]
  .sp
  For example:
  .sp
***************
*** 311,317 ****
  a slash (/)
  separates standard and daylight abbreviations.
  .TP
! .B UNTIL
  The time at which the UTC offset or the rule(s) change for a location.
  It is specified as a year, a month, a day, and a time of day.
  If this is specified,
--- 311,317 ----
  a slash (/)
  separates standard and daylight abbreviations.
  .TP
! .B UNTILYEAR [MONTH [DAY [TIME]]]
  The time at which the UTC offset or the rule(s) change for a location.
  It is specified as a year, a month, a day, and a time of day.
  If this is specified,
***************
*** 318,325 ****
  the time zone information is generated from the given UTC offset
  and rule change until the time specified.
  The month, day, and time of day have the same format as the IN, ON,
and AT
! columns of a rule; trailing columns can be omitted, and default to the
! earliest possible value for the missing columns.
  .IP
  The next line must be a
  .q continuation
--- 318,325 ----
  the time zone information is generated from the given UTC offset
  and rule change until the time specified.
  The month, day, and time of day have the same format as the IN, ON,
and AT
! fields of a rule; trailing fields can be omitted, and default to the
! earliest possible value for the missing fields.
  .IP
  The next line must be a
  .q continuation
***************
*** 328,338 ****
  .q Zone
  and the name are omitted, as the continuation line will
  place information starting at the time specified as the
! .B UNTIL
! field in the previous line in the file used by the previous line.
! Continuation lines may contain an
! .B UNTIL
! field, just as zone lines do, indicating that the next line is a
further
  continuation.
  .PP
  A link line has the form
--- 328,338 ----
  .q Zone
  and the name are omitted, as the continuation line will
  place information starting at the time specified as the
! .q until
! information in the previous line in the file used by the previous
line.
! Continuation lines may contain
! .q until
! information, just as zone lines do, indicating that the next line is a
further
  continuation.
  .PP
  A link line has the form




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