[tz] [tz-announce] 2018f release of tz code and data available
Christos Zoulas
christos at zoulas.com
Thu Oct 18 18:48:34 UTC 2018
On Oct 18, 11:14am, eggert at cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [tz] [tz-announce] 2018f release of tz code and data availabl
| Thanks for the heads-up; please try the attached patch.
|
| Is there some way your folks can try the development version on GitHub
| every now and then? That "25:00" has been in the development version
| since last month and was explicitly called out when the patch was
| circulated on the mailing list
| <https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-September/026891.html>. It'd
| have been nice to catch the glitch before 2018f came out.
Will ask them to test more frequently. I will also test the patch and report
back.
Best,
christos
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| >From 401c42d991d4277cd606933fc9f5d9a13d1ac228 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
| From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
| Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:06:07 -0700
| Subject: [PROPOSED] Avoid 25:00 in rearguard format
|
| (Problem reported by Christos Zoulas.)
| * NEWS: Mention this.
| * ziguard.awk: Change "Rule ... Sat>=8 25:00" to "Rule ... Sun>=9 1:00".
| ---
| NEWS | 11 +++++++++++
| ziguard.awk | 7 +++++++
| 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
|
| diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
| index aeeef10..16f0947 100644
| --- a/NEWS
| +++ b/NEWS
| @@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
| News for the tz database
|
| +Unreleased, experimental changes
| +
| + Changes to code
| +
| + The translator to rearguard format now rewrites the line
| + "Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 25:00 0 S" to
| + "Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sun>=9 1:00 0 S".
| + This caters to zic before 2007 and to at least one Java-based zi
| + compiler of uncertain vintage. (Reported by Christos Zoulas.)
| +
| +
| Release 2018f - 2018-10-18 00:14:18 -0700
|
| Briefly:
| diff --git a/ziguard.awk b/ziguard.awk
| index 42e2910..e3c7298 100644
| --- a/ziguard.awk
| +++ b/ziguard.awk
| @@ -80,6 +80,13 @@ DATAFORM != "main" {
| if (comment_out) {
| sub(/^/, "#")
| }
| +
| + # In rearguard format, change the Japan rule line with "Sat>=8 25:00"
| + # to "Sun>=9 1:00", to cater to zic before 2007 and to older Java.
| + if (!vanguard && $1 == "Rule" && $7 == "Sat>=8" && $8 == "25:00") {
| + sub(/Sat>=8/, "Sun>=9")
| + sub(/25:00/, " 1:00")
| + }
| }
|
| # If a Link line is followed by a Zone line for the same data, comment
| --
| 2.17.2
|
|
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