[tz] Ecuador time zone list
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Sep 20 00:30:26 UTC 2022
Thanks for taking a look at it. The first patch is OK now that we've
worked around nawk's bugs, so I installed it (albeit with a different
URL). The other two patches have problems, though. They assume that
zone1970.tab and zone.tab are the only two possibilities, but a primary
reason for -t option is to let users choose other possibilities of their
own design.
So the second patch needs to be more generic, and not say that there are
just two *.tab files; it also needs to say that the -t option is
experimental. I suppose it also needs to document the current *.tab file
format.
And the third patch goes in the wrong direction, as it hardwires the
assumption that 'zone1970.tab' and 'zone.tab' are the only two choices
and it outputs something cryptic and unactionable to boot. If we're
going to change tzselect in this area perhaps it would be better for
tzselect to act just as now, but if the user says "no" at the end then
give the user an option of trying again with the other *.tab files.
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