March 21, 2008
4:03 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:25:00AM +0000, Progfou wrote:
We'd normally try to limit the name to at most 14 characters.
Is there a specific reason for this? Or any official rule (POSIX?) ? Because I can see other zone names as long as 30 caracters. Eg: America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
The constraint that is actually in play is that POSIX specifies that the length of a _portable_ path component is limited to 14 characters (bytes, really). In the example you gave, the longest path component (North_Dakota) is only 12 bytes, and so is fine by this rule. --Ken Pizzini