On Wed, May 1, 2013, at 8:08, Tobias Conradi wrote:
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:35 PM, <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
Tokens in the timezone files are separated by _any whitespace_. I don't see the word "token" in ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/code/Theory
It's the plain english meaning of the word. Theory does not contain a specification for the format of these files. And you knew that, so what was the point of making this post? Any whitespace is the separation in the format that zic accepts (as evidenced by the fact that these lines don't, in fact, break anything), I have no idea why people are trying to impose a tab-separated format on it, particularly when they don't have a consistent _number_ of tabs regardless (in northamerica alone, there are 455 lines that begin with a tab, 9 that have extra tabs at the end, and 7 that have two tabs between two fields).