[tz] tabs vs spaces

Tobias Conradi mail.2012 at tobiasconradi.com
Thu May 2 20:18:50 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:05 PM,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013, at 15:46, Tobias Conradi wrote:
>> Where is the set of what you call "timezone files" defined?
>
> We have already said multiple times that we are talking about the files
> which are used as inputs to the zic program.
Evidence?

> They are not discussed in the Theory file.
Since that mentions "time zone rule files", I wonder what these then
are, and what the files are that are "are used as inputs to the zic
program"

> The format is described in
> the manpage for zic (the filename of this manpage is zic.8 - there may
> be a zic.8.txt in your distribution; I can't connect to the
> "ftp.iana.org" server you are using)
>
> I cannot possibly believe that you did not know this;
I can.

> you seem to be
> being deliberately disingenuous.
To you.


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