July 11, 2015
4:34 a.m.
Jon Skeet <skeet@pobox.com> wrote: |Given how widely used zdump is, we can't really change the format by |default - but we could perhaps add a new flag to indicate a new format, |assuming I'm not alone in my objections above? |(Having said that, a dump with the data in a format I'm not ecstatic about |would be better for me than no dump at all. I'm certainly not going to |start chest-thumping about formats.) I think Ed Schouten of FreeBSD has done something alike -- based on zdump(1) that is -- for his CloudABI framework (in FreeBSD and on that hub). If i understood the presentation he doesn't parse TZDATA itself but uses the pre-prepared output of zdump(1) to generate his data; maybe you can simply use that in return. --steffen