Hi Paul, Thank you for the clarification. Here is a related question/suggestion: For example, when blindly processing Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 0:00 Ghana %s One is to apply LMT until 1918, then apply standard time zone offset until the first rule. However, one does not know what time zone name to apply for the given location, the best one can do is use GMT+/- based on the offset. Is it possible for you to easily add the default time zone name to the zone.tab file (provided zic does not display GMT offset)? Ff there is a way to an elegant solution please let me know :-) Thank you in advance, Srdjan -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU] Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:11 PM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Europe/London "Srdjan Krajnalic" <ludiskr@yahoo.com> writes:
However GB-Eire starts with a 1916 rule, leaving anything from 1847 until 1916 seemingly undefined.
Until the first rule applies, you use the first-listed rule that is on standard time (in this case, "GMT" with UTC offset zero). Unfortunately I don't see this point being covered clearly in the zic man page.