On 16 July 2015 at 04:20, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

Is there any information missing on an individual transition basis, or is
it more global matters (links, start/end points, range of transitions) that
is missing information?

I don't recall exactly the formats you're using, but the thing I most remember is not being able to handle all the data. zdump should be able to dump everything, not just transitions for a limited number of years.

I'm fine with that. Given that zdump already has the ability to limit the number of years reported, I'd expect the new option to respect the existing one.

At some point, perhaps far in the future, there should be a pattern and zdump should be able to deduce it and output it and stop. zic already does this sort of thing.

Right - if that ever happens, I think we'd probably want to be able to be able to disable that behaviour though... the dumber regression tests are, the happier I am, if you see what I mean.

Jon