On 2015-07-16 02:30, Jon Skeet wrote:
On 16 July 2015 at 04:20, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu <mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu>> wrote: Is there any information missing on an individual transition basis, or is it more global matters (links, start/end points, range of transitions) that is missing information? I don't recall exactly the formats you're using, but the thing I most remember is not being able to handle all the data. zdump should be able to dump everything, not just transitions for a limited number of years. I'm fine with that. Given that zdump already has the ability to limit the number of years reported, I'd expect the new option to respect the existing one. At some point, perhaps far in the future, there should be a pattern and zdump should be able to deduce it and output it and stop. zic already does this sort of thing. Right - if that ever happens, I think we'd probably want to be able to be able to disable that behaviour though... the dumber regression tests are, the happier I am, if you see what I mean.
What about adding the date +FORMAT argument or the GNU ls --time-style options to zdump? --time-style=STYLE with -l, show times using style STYLE: full-iso, long-iso, iso, locale, +FORMAT. FORMAT is interpreted like 'date' The former requires only a call to strftime(3), while the latter requires some format selection. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis