[tz] Beginner's help request

[Arthur David Olson]

> ...the first column is the TZ name, and the second is the prediction of
the
> future behavior of clocks in the corresponding location, in nearly-POSIX
TZ
> string format. We don't distribute a table like that now, though I
suppose we
> could generate one automatically from the information that is already
there.

Yes; all that's need is a bit of elaboration on
    cd /YOUR/SYSTEM/PREAMBLE/zoneinfo
    tail -n 1 `find * ! -name "*.tab"`

        --ado

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Tim Parenti wrote:
>
>> For your idea of a text-only table of already-parsed data, you may
>> consider
>> the zdump utility that is packaged in the distribution.
>>
>
> It sounds like what's wanted is more a table like this:
>
> Africa/Abidjan  GMT0
> Africa/Accra    GMT0
> Africa/Algiers  CET-1
> Africa/Bissau   GMT0
> Africa/Cairo    EET-2
> Africa/Casablanca       WET0WEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3
> Africa/Ceuta    CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3
> ...
>
> where the first column is the TZ name, and the second is the prediction of
> the future behavior of clocks in the corresponding location, in
> nearly-POSIX TZ string format. We don't distribute a table like that now,
> though I suppose we could generate one automatically from the information
> that is already there.
>
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