Carnival Sunday in Brazil

[Dave Rolsky]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:

> Another possibility is to express the rules as...
> 	Rule Brazil 2008 max earlycarnival Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
> 	Rule Brazil 2008 max latecarnival  Feb Sun>=22 0:00 0 -
> ...with suitable additions to the "yearistype" script--including, but not limited to,
> 	2-earlycarnival|2-latecarnival)
> 		case $1 in
> 			2012|2015|2023|2026|2034|2037)	late=1 ;;
> 			*)				late=0 ;;
> 		esac
> 		case $2-$late in
> 			earlycarnival-0|latecarnival-1)	exit 0 ;;
> 			*)				exit 1 ;;
> 		esac ;;

Arg, please don't!

Those of us who write our own parsers will thank you for not changing the 
format with weird little special cases ;)

> Yet another possibility is to cobble up a Carnival calculating 
> executable that can be used by yearistype (instead of hard-coding the 
> years as above). Both this approach and the hard-coded approach merit 
> caution: the yearistype mechanism hasn't been used for real-world stuff 
> in some years.

This is even worse for those of us with our own parsers.

I really would like to see the tz file format remain something 
self-contained. Ideally, it'd be documented outside of the C code that 
parses it. Even more ideally, it'd remain as simple as possible.


-dave

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