May 18, 2019
8:34 a.m.
David Gauchard wrote:
Latest version of zic produces an empty TZ string with Africa/Casablanca (and El Aaiun)
Would it better be at least GMT0 ?
By "empty TZ string" I assume you mean the string at the end of the TZif file. Traditionally, zic has omitted that string if it couldn't express far-future rules in the form of an extended POSIX TZ environment variable, as is the case for Morocco. Alternatively, I suppose zic could attempt to approximate far-future rules as best it can within the extended-POSIX framework, and use a string like "<+01>-1"; however, this could well give data consumers a false confidence in predicted timestamps. Perhaps it would be better to leave things be.