On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> wrote:
I liked the syntax proposed by Andy Lipscomb on 5 Sep 2013, with "=" as a magic character in the GMTOFF, RULES, and FORMAT fields of a Zone record. See <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019952.html>. He gave this example:
Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 =America/Denver = = 2003 Oct 26 02:00 =America/Chicago = =
I seem to be behind the times. 8-) I agree that that's better. My only thought is that maybe the first '=' should be the whole GMTOFF, and the other zone be the RULES. That eliminates one '=' at the end and maybe makes the line easier to parse. Or maybe not. I need to read the cited paper.