[tz] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-murchison-rfc8536bis-06.txt
Steffen Nurpmeso
steffen at sdaoden.eu
Thu Mar 9 17:28:27 UTC 2023
Brian Inglis via tz wrote in
<59c06905-1bba-d3da-85db-7f1d84cf8472 at Shaw.ca>:
|On 2023-03-08 07:50, Ken Murchison via tz wrote:
|> Attached is the diff between my working copy and -06. Comments and \
|> suggested
|> text welcome.
...
|Suggest using alternative rather than Daylight Savings Time as under \
|current
|POSIX Base Definitions 8.3 Other Environment Variables TZ:
|
|https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html\
|#tag_08_03
|
|"std and dst
|Indicate no less than three, nor more than {TZNAME_MAX}, bytes that \
|are the
|designation for the standard (std) or the alternative (dst -such as \
|Daylight
|Savings Time) timezone. Only std is required; if dst is missing, then the
|alternative time does not apply in this locale."...
I _think_ this is objected by kre and fine-tuning is on the way?
(I am not really looking into this issue. I never dealt with
these strings, but only ever used identifiers.)
--steffen
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|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
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|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
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