"Srdjan Krajnalic" <ludiskr@yahoo.com> writes:
For example, when blindly processing
Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 0:00 Ghana %s
One is to apply LMT until 1918, then apply standard time zone offset until the first rule. However, one does not know what time zone name to apply for the given location,
If you're using standard time, the Rule line says the time zone name is "GMT" here, so that's what you'd use.
Is it possible for you to easily add the default time zone name to the zone.tab file
I'd rather not, since that would be one more thing to maintain by hand. I guess by "default time zone name" you mean the name of standard time in the foreseeable future, but that is something you should be able to compute from the existing data.