"If characters begins with a slash, it is an absolute file name; otherwise the library looks for the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/characters."
Thus starting with a period is what throws it off?
-Matt
From: tz <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:47 AM To: Arthur David Olson Cc: Time Zone Mailing List Subject: Re: [tz] zdump bug?
On 10/28/18 9:23 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 'zdump New_York' is treated differently from 'zdump ./New_York'. It
> might make sense for the code to try harder to treat only ".."
> components differently.
I installed the attached first patch to try to do that. The second
attached patch silences a warning when running "make
CFLAGS='$(GCC_DEBUG_FLAGS)' GCC_INSTRUMENT=" on my platform (I updated
GCC recently).