>From 61d803849f3847f9d2c1461dba9c42d4d049ea16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:44:30 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] Document time zone designations better Problem reported by Ian Abbott in: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-March/029926.html * tzfile.5: Add a separate entry for the time zone designations. --- tzfile.5 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/tzfile.5 b/tzfile.5 index bc41032..8ee6cfb 100644 --- a/tzfile.5 +++ b/tzfile.5 @@ -129,6 +129,14 @@ is in the range [\-89999, 93599] (i.e., more than \-25 hours and less than 26 hours); this allows easy support by implementations that already support the POSIX-required range [\-24:59:59, 25:59:59]. .IP * +.B tzh_charcnt +bytes that represent time zone designations, +which are null-terminated byte strings, each indexed by the +.B tt_desigidx +values mentioned above. +The byte strings can overlap if one is a prefix of the other. +The encoding of these strings is not specified. +.IP * .B tzh_leapcnt pairs of four-byte values, written in network byte order; the first value of each pair gives the nonnegative time -- 2.27.0