[tz] tz abbr too long in 2017a Africa/Monrovia [was: zic throws warning for 2007a]

Wed Mar 1 22:36:16 UTC 2017

> The warning is there because of POSIX has a 6 char limit, so we can't
> just excempt that from the cap.

And Unicode is out, so -0444½ won't do.-)

    @dashdashado

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Derick Rethans <tz at derickrethans.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Tim Parenti wrote:
>
> > On 1 March 2017 at 16:42, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis at systematicsw.ab.ca>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Looks like it stores the over long abbreviation.
> > > So should probably patch:
> > >
> > > --- tz/releases/tzdata2017a/africa      2017-02-23 00:37:19.000000000
> -0700
> > > +++ tz/releases/tzdata2017b/africa      2017-03-01 14:36:43.479882200
> -0700
> > > @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte
> > >  # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
> > >  Zone   Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 -      LMT     1882
> > >                         -0:43:08 -      MMT     1919 Mar # Monrovia
> Mean
> > > Time
> > > -                       -0:44:30 -      -004430 1972 May
> > > +                       -0:44:30 -      -0044   1972 May
> > >                          0:00   -       GMT
> > >
> >
> > The above patch would be incorrect, though.  It would be more correct to
> > increase the allowed max abbreviation length.  (Even better, numerical
> > "abbreviations" like this should just be exempted from the caps, since
> they
> > can technically be of almost any length, even though this is the longest
> > they'll be in practice.)
>
> The warning is there because of POSIX has a 6 char limit, so we can't
> just excempt that from the cap.
>
> cheers,
> Derick
>
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