On 2024-03-12 20:12, Tim Parenti wrote:
At first inspection, it looks to me as though this may be some sort of bug with zishrink.awk.
Yes, as its comments say it's special-purpose code that works for the current tzdata but it's fragile. I installed the attached patch which should address this particular situation, but the code's still fragile as you can see.
For Africa/Cape_Verde and Africa/Maputo, I think there is still some residual value in mentioning "Shanks said something different", since we aren't sure there wasn't some other law that could have introduced zonal time to any given colony prior to the May 1911 decree. But I can definitely aim to be more concise in doing so.
Sounds good.
Do you mind if I quote/paraphrase that in the updated commentary?
No, that sounds good too.
The commented-out Asia/Panaji section is already in 'backzone'.
Oh, sorry, I didn't notice that. Please ignore that part of my earlier comment.