[tz] Beginner's help request

[Daniel Ford]

Arthur,

I'm assuming this was directed more to Paul than to me, but many thanks for your input to the discussion.

Regards,
Daniel

 

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From: Arthur David Olson [mailto:arthurdavidolson at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 1:41 PM
Cc: Daniel Ford; Time Zone Mailing List
Subject: Re: [tz] Beginner's help request


> ...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.