[tz] Europe/Budapest timezone

Jonathan Leffler jonathan.leffler at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 21:12:55 UTC 2019


Paul, the time of change for the second (fall back) change was proposed as
/3 but the standard you referenced says the default time is /2, so they
aren’t exactly equivalent AFAICS.  Whether/3 is correct is outside my
knowledge.


On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 13:08 Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 2/1/19 1:01 PM, Lev wrote:
> > For Europe/Budapest, I got this tz string:
> >
> > CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3
> >
> > I think IMHO it should be:
> >
> > CET-1CEST,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3
>
> They're equivalent POSIX TZ strings, and the one zic uses is shorter. See:
>
>
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html#tag_08_03
>
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