March 5, 2024
10:12 p.m.
On Mar 5, 2024, at 2:03 PM, Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> wrote:
I don't see any reference to the leading colon in that documentation. Am I just missing something?
No, you aren't.
It seems to support what I said: PST8PDT was supported, but :PST8PDT was not.
Yes. As I indicated, they didn't have tzdb code (if they did, that would be a surprise, as the tzdb project didn't exist in 1979/1980), and they didn't support any POSIX extensions to TZ (if they did, that would be a surprise as, at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX, the first POSIX standard came out in 1988).