On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, at 13:18, Paul Eggert wrote:
One way forward here would be to give zdump more options to let the user specify the format. That way, everybody could use their own favorite format.
You've still got to pick a paradigm: print transitions, print intervals, or print individual moments (which can be regarded as having been selected before or after a transition, or as the start or end of an interval)
It might also be nice to output "PST8PDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0" at the end, instead of that repetitive list of lines starting with the year 2007.
This may not be available for all timezones, and it's certainly not available (not without a work) if the localtime implementation is blackboxed as it is now in zdump. I suppose you could infer it, technically.