March 27, 2006
9:59 p.m.
Paul Eggert wrote:
Philip Ross <phil.ross@gmail.com> writes:
Take Africa/Accra as an example. Starting from 1918, this zone uses the Ghana rules with a %s format string. The Ghana rules only start to be defined from 1936.
In this case, it's assumed that you start off in standard time, and that you take the rule's first abbreviation that applies to standard time. For your example, that's "GMT". If you inspect the 'zic' source code you should see that rule in action.
No doubt this should be documented....
I'd read the zic man page, but hadn't got round to checking the source in any detail. I'll have a go at implementing this. Thanks, Phil