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

[Bill Seymour]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Alan Barrett <apb at cequrux.com> wrote:
>
> I liked the syntax proposed by Andy Lipscomb on 5 Sep 2013, with "=" as a
> magic character in the GMTOFF, RULES, and FORMAT fields of a Zone record.
> See <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019952.html>.  He gave
> this example:
>
> 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       =    =
>

I seem to be behind the times. 8-)  I agree that that's better.

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.