[tz] A New Rule? (was McMurdo/South Pole)

Bill Seymour stdbill.h at pobox.com
Sun Sep 22 11:45:11 UTC 2013


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:33 AM, I wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Alan Barrett <apb at cequrux.com> wrote:
>>
>> I liked the syntax proposed by Andy Lipscomb ...
>>
>> Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21
>>     =America/Denver        =    =    2003 Oct 26 02:00
>>     =America/Chicago       =    =
>>
>
> My only thought is that maybe the first '=' should be the whole GMTOFF,
> and the other zone be the RULES.  That eliminates one '=' at the end
> and maybe makes the line easier to parse.  Or maybe not.  I need to
> read the cited paper.
>

Well, that was an easy read. 8-)

Can anyone think of a use case for "use this zone but with a different
set of rules"?  If not, then I would suggest making the other zone name
be the RULES as I said.


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