Oct. 27, 2008
7:32 p.m.
I'm forwarding this message from hsv, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: hsv@tbbs.net [mailto:hsv@tbbs.net] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 3:01 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: file-format The man-page describes a fairly loose fileformat, but the actual files show less loosness: there is no quoted sharp (#), all one name s Rules are in a bunch in time order, with no other Rule or Zone in between, all weekday-names are three-letter-long abbreviations of capital letter and twain small letters. Can I afford to count on that, or is it really needful to pars a much looser-formatted file than really is there?