Arthur, I'm assuming this was directed more to Paul than to me, but many thanks for your input to the discussion. Regards, Daniel ________________________________ From: Arthur David Olson [mailto:arthurdavidolson@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 1:41 PM Cc: Daniel Ford; Time Zone Mailing List Subject: Re: [tz] Beginner's help request
...the first column is the TZ name, and the second is the prediction of the future behavior of clocks in the corresponding location, in nearly-POSIX TZ string format. We don't distribute a table like that now, though I suppose we could generate one automatically from the information that is already there.
Yes; all that's need is a bit of elaboration on cd /YOUR/SYSTEM/PREAMBLE/zoneinfo tail -n 1 `find * ! -name "*.tab"` --ado On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: Tim Parenti wrote: For your idea of a text-only table of already-parsed data, you may consider the zdump utility that is packaged in the distribution. It sounds like what's wanted is more a table like this: Africa/Abidjan GMT0 Africa/Accra GMT0 Africa/Algiers CET-1 Africa/Bissau GMT0 Africa/Cairo EET-2 Africa/Casablanca WET0WEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3 Africa/Ceuta CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3 ... where the first column is the TZ name, and the second is the prediction of the future behavior of clocks in the corresponding location, in nearly-POSIX TZ string format. We don't distribute a table like that now, though I suppose we could generate one automatically from the information that is already there.