June 26, 2014
11:08 p.m.
In my tests, adding a new Zone line for "America/./New_York" at the end of northamerica, for example, causes the second definition of America/New_York to silently overwrite the first. Disallowing "." alongside ".." effectively requires that all paths be explicit, which allows the "duplicate zone name" error to handle the rest. -- Tim Parenti On 26 June 2014 18:55, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Tim Parenti wrote:
Shouldn't zic *error* if a component is equal to "." or ".."
I can see an argument for an error if a component is "..", but why is "." a problem? Can you give a problem scenario involving "."?