[tz] Use of <> delimiters in TZ string is not documented
Alexander Belopolsky
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 18:49:28 UTC 2016
The Asia/Almaty tzfile generated from recent Github tzdata snapshot
contains the following TZ string at the end of the file
$ git describe
2016f-7-ge0a7616
$ strings etc/zoneinfo/Asia/Almaty | tail -1
<+06>-6
This format is not documented in newtzset.3:
When TZ is used directly as a specification of the time conversion
information, it must have the following syntax (spaces inserted for
clarity):
stdoffset[dst[offset][,rule]]
Where:
std and dst Three or more bytes that are the designation
for
the standard (std) or summer (dst) time zone.
Only std is required; if dst is missing, then
summer time does not apply in this locale.
Upper- and lowercase letters are explicitly
allowed. Any characters except a leading colon
(:), digits, comma (,), ASCII minus (-), ASCII
plus (+), and NUL bytes are allowed.
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