Hello Tobias, Am Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 09:01:02PM +0100 schrieb Florian Ernst: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 02:00:58AM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > In 'man 5 tzfile', after the header description, six fields are > > described: tzh_timecnt*4, tzh_timecnt*1, tzh_typecnt*6, tzh_leapcnt*8, > > tzh_ttisstdcnt*1, tzh_ttisgmtcnt*1. > > > > According to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8536 (section 3.2. TZif > > Data Block), there should be also a tzh_charcnt field after the first > > three fields (i.e. total of seven fields). > > The current manpage seems to match https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8536, > and for tzh_charcnt it states > > | tzh_charcnt > | The number of bytes of time zone abbreviation strings stored in the > file. > > As such I think this bug could just be closed.
I concur.
> Hmm, I found tzh_charcnt to be listed in that manpage all the way back
> to upstream 3.27, and according to rfc8536 that field is part of the
> header. So maybe there was something missed when filing this bug?
Well, the submitter did not responded in the last ~ 2 years (I
acknowledged, that he was not explicitly CCed, unfortuantely, by
Florian). So I would suggest to close it as well, speculating about
different potential bugs is not sensible.
Greetings
Helge
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