Oct. 7, 2021
11:17 p.m.
On 10/7/21 13:41, Arthur David Olson via tz wrote:
One odd possibility on standardizing access to version information: a zic'd line such as... Zone Version 0 - 2021c ...would allow use of the command... TZ=Version date ...to discover the version.-)
Clever! I hadn't thought of that. This could supplant the "# version" line in tzdata.zi, and I suppose a similar trick could be used for the "# redo", "# ddeps", and "# dataform" lines - though this would limit us to ASCII alphanumerics and '-' and '+' in version numbers, which could be a bit restrictive.