On 2024-01-28 07:23, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Is a draft of that next POSIX publicly available?
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One significant(?) UNIX-branded implementation supports only “POSIX.1-2017-like TZ strings”: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=variable-command-format>
Thanks, I wasn't aware that z/OS supports only POSIX.1-2017 syntax for TZ strings. This behavior was common in older platforms, and I assume can happen even today in stripped-down platforms other than z/OS. As a transition aid for these systems, it's helpful to have a mapping from TZDB settings like TZ='Europe/London' to POSIX.1-2017 approximations like TZ='GMT0BST,M3.5.0/1,M10.5.0'. Perhaps TZDB itself should support such a mapping, though now's not the best time to add that as we're so close to a release. In the meantime I installed the attached documentation patch, which references the posix_tz_db package that generates mapping tables.