It may be useful to have zic warn when producing a binary with more than 1200 transition times; one possibility is attached (and appears below with tabs mangled).

To make room for the new code, a warning about pre-1998 versions of zic has been removed.-)

    @dashdashado

*** tz2014braw/zic.c    2014-03-20 23:21:43.000000000 -0400
--- tz2014bcooked/zic.c    2014-03-25 10:19:28.470390300 -0400
***************
*** 962,969 ****
        error(_("time overflow"));
        return 0;
    }
-     if (noise && hh == HOURSPERDAY && mm == 0 && ss == 0)
-         warning(_("24:00 not handled by pre-1998 versions of zic"));
    if (noise && (hh > HOURSPERDAY ||
        (hh == HOURSPERDAY && (mm != 0 || ss != 0))))
warning(_("values over 24 hours not handled by pre-2007 versions of zic"));
--- 962,967 ----
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*** 1503,1508 ****
--- 1501,1508 ----
        }
        timecnt = toi;
    }
+     if (noise && timecnt > 1200)
+         warning(_("pre-2014 clients may mishandle more than 1200 transition times"));
    /*
    ** Transfer.
    */