On 17 November 2014 09:22, Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> wrote:
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
And 2014j causes yet another bug downstream https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8064914
The zic(8) man page, which serves as documentation for the format of the input files, says:
The LINK-FROM field should appear as the NAME field in some zone line.
To me, this means that a Link should not point to another Link, but should point to a Zone. This combination of links would appear to violate that requirement:
Zone Africa/Nairobi ... Link Africa/Nairobi Africa/Asmara Link Africa/Asmara Africa/Asmera
And yet logically, what should be expressed is that Asmera is an alias for Asmara. Making backzone point at Nairobi would be very confusing. Stephen