On 2017-03-01 13:12, Derick Rethans wrote:
I've just updated the PHP version of the TZ database, and while compiling with the current zic, I see: warning: "standard input", line 434: time zone abbreviation has too many characters (-004430) This is because of: 24 #ifndef ZIC_MAX_ABBR_LEN_WO_WARN 25 #define ZIC_MAX_ABBR_LEN_WO_WARN 6 26 #endif /* !defined ZIC_MAX_ABBR_LEN_WO_WARN */ 3108 if (cp - string > ZIC_MAX_ABBR_LEN_WO_WARN) 3109 mp = _("time zone abbreviation has too many characters"); That check was introduced in 2012j as per NEWS: Release 2012j - 2012-11-12 18:34:49 -0800 ... zic -v now complains about abbreviations that are less than 3 or more than 6 characters, as per Posix. Formerly, it checked for abbreviations that were more than 3.
Seems the problem is only in: $ egrep -n '^[^#]*[-+]?[0-9]{5,6}' tz/releases/tzdata*/[aefns]*[aey] tz/releases/tzdata2017a/africa:434: -0:44:30 - -004430 1972 May $ awk 'BEGIN{RS="";FS="\n"};/\n[^#]*[-+]?[0-9]{5,6}/' tz/releases/tzdata2017a/africa # Liberia # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch # from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. # Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. # Shank & Pottenger report the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; # go with Shanks & Pottenger. # For Liberia before 1972, Shanks & Pottenger report -0:44, whereas Howse and # Whitman each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time -0:44:30 - -004430 1972 May 0:00 - GMT $ zic -vd /usr/local/share/zoneinfo/ tz/releases/tzdata2017a/africa warning: "tz/releases/tzdata2017a/africa", line 434: time zone abbreviation has too many characters (-004430) $ zdump -iV /usr/local/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Monrovia TZ="/usr/local/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Monrovia" - - -00:43:08 LMT 1882-01-01 00 -00:43:08 MMT 1919-02-28 23:58:38 -00:44:30 "-004430" 1972-05-01 00:44:30 +00 GMT Looks like it stores the over long abbreviation. So should probably patch: --- tz/releases/tzdata2017a/africa 2017-02-23 00:37:19.000000000 -0700 +++ tz/releases/tzdata2017b/africa 2017-03-01 14:36:43.479882200 -0700 @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ Link Africa/Nairobi Indian/Mayotte # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882 -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time - -0:44:30 - -004430 1972 May + -0:44:30 - -0044 1972 May 0:00 - GMT -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada