The specs seem to indicate it may be any number of characters. http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html
Five-character time zones are already here. http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/atlantic/azost.ht ml It appears you strip characters until you get to a non-alpha character. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 7:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: timezone_name? Mike Schwab's point is well made. Some of these values are three-character ones, some of them are four-character ones, and five-character ones are obviously in the womb of time. A parse that deals swith this variability is, finally, trivial; but the issue should not be ignored. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
