On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
On May 1, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Tobias Conradi <mail.2012@tobiasconradi.com> wrote:
I came from random832@fastmail.us:
"Tokens in the timezone files are separated by _any whitespace_." and re-used the any.
I wanted to say "And I assume not /every/ 'any white space' separates tokens."
I had in mind the spaces in the comment field:
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/zone.tab
"Rothera Station, Adelaide Island"
...which isn't a timezone file.
Where is the set of what you call "timezone files" defined? ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/code/Theory talks of "time zone rule files" and singular: "The daylight saving time rules to be used for a particular time zone are encoded in the time zone file" No "time zone files" or "timezone files" found.
That file has a different syntax, as described in the leading comment:
# Columns are separated by a single tab. So, the benefits layed down at http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-May/019175.html and other unknown reason that lead to multiple white space in some files are out-weighted by something unknown for zone.tab? What could that be?
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