March 1, 2012
12:17 p.m.
My automatic repackager for CPAN has just barfed on the zone.tab in tzdata2012a. I should have checked the diff more carefully, I guess. The fault it finds is that the new America/Creston line has *two* tab characters between "America/Creston" and the region description. The comments at the top of the file include "Columns are separated by a single tab.". Previously the file adhered to the single tab rule, and I made my parser correspondingly strict. Obviously I'll manually intervene to get 2012a repackaged, but I think the file should be fixed for 2012b. -zefram