On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 10:12:54PM +0200, Srdjan Krajnalic wrote:
Here is a related question/suggestion:
For example, when blindly processing
Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918 0:00 Ghana %s
One is to apply LMT until 1918, then apply standard time zone offset until the first rule. However, one does not know what time zone name to apply for the given location, the best one can do is use GMT+/- based on the offset.
This is the same as Paul's other answer: from the end of LMT until the beginning of the Ghana rule (1936) (and again after 1942), the "standard time" (zero savings-time offet) part of the Ghana rule is to be used, and thus the abbreviation, according to the current rules, would be "GMT", and the GMT/UTC offset would be 0:00 . And again, clarification of this in the zic manpage appears to be needed... --Ken Pizzini