Problem reported by Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-October/020441.html>.
This code is quite a bit different from what he proposed.
* tzselect.ksh: Rewrite so that it should work with /bin/sh on
common platforms. For portability to Solaris 9 /bin/sh, use
`...`, not $(...), and avoid $((...)).
(doselect): New function. Use this instead of plain 'select'.
Callers no longer need to worry whether it sets the var to empty.
* Makefile, NEWS: Document this.
This was experimental, and it appears that the tzwinnow
approach will be better. We need to cut a new stable
release soon, and the -t option might make it harder to
integrate tzwinnow later, so let's omit -t for now.
* .gitignore: Remove time.tab.
* Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): Remove. All uses removed.
(time.tab): Remove. All uses removed.
* Theory: Omit discussion of time.tab.
* zone-time.awk: Remove.
* tzselect.8: Omit -t and time.tab.
* tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): Remove. All uses removed.
Remove -t ZONETABTYPE option.
* zone.tab: Restore first comment line, since there's no longer
a need to distinguish this file from time.tab.
* tzselect.ksh (LC_ALL): Don't set this, so that the user can
use the locale's decimal point in coordinates.
(convert_coord): Rename from cvt1. All callers changed.
Support more ISO 6709 forms.
* tzselect.8: Document -c better, including the new forms.
These let the user select TZ based on geographical coordinates.
Combining '-c COORD' with '-t time' better insulates the user from
issues of nationality.
* tzselect.8 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document the new options.
* tzselect.ksh: Implement them, using the great-circle special
case of the Vicenty formula for distances on ellipsoids.
(LC_ALL): Set to C, since tzselect is English only. That way, we
treat decimal-points in -c option operands the same in all environments.
(usage): Document new options. Document existing ones better.
(output_distances): New variable.
This is a backwards-compatible way of transitioning to a less
politically-charged approach to choosing TZ values. A new time
zone table time.tab acts like zone.tab, except it omits TZ values
that are present only for political reasons. tzselect has a new
"-t zonetabtype" option that lets users select which time zone table
to use, and installers can select the default table. The zone.tab
file does not change, and the default tzselect table for now is
zone.tab. This avoids the backward-compatibility concerns
expressed on the tz mailing list; see, for example,
the discussion surrounding Derick Rethans's comments in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019544.html>
* .gitignore: Add time.tab.
* Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): New macro.
(TABDATA): Add time.tab.
(all): Depend on $(TABDATA).
(install): Do not depend on $(TABDATA), since $(DATA) includes it.
Install time.tab too.
(time.tab): New rule.
(tzselect.tab): Substitute ZONETABTYPE.
* zone-time.awk: New file.
* tzselect.8: Document new options, and --help and --version while
we're at it.
* tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): New var.
Implement -t ZONETABTYPE option.
Check that no extra operands are given.
* zone.tab: Change first comment line, to distinguish the two
tables better.
Based on a patch by Joseph S. Myers in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018452.html>.
* Makefile (BUGEMAIL): New macro.
(version.h, tzselect): Use it to define REPORT_BUGS_TO.
* tzselect.ksh (REPORT_BUGS_TO): New variable, used for --help.
* zdump.c, zic.c (usage): Use REPORT_BUGS_TO for --help.
E.g., "zic (tzcode) 2012i" instead of "tzcode2012i".
Thread started by Joseph S. Myers in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-November/018439.html>.
* Makefile (PACKAGE): New macro.
(version.h, tzselect): New constant PKGVERSION, derived from PACKAGE.
(tzselect): TZVERSION is now simply VERSION, since PACKAGE is also
output.
* tzselect.ksh (PKGVERSION): New var, which Makefile substitutes for.
(--usage, --version): Exit with nonzero status if we can't
output the help or version number.
* tzselect.ksh (--version):
* zdump.c, zic.c (main):
Output versions like this: "zdump (tzcode) 2012i".
* africa, australasia, europe, northamerica, southamerica:
* tzselect.ksh, zdump.c, zic.c:
In commentary and strings, change email address from
tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov to tz@iana.org, as the old email address
no longer works.
* Makefile (KSHELL): New macro.
(tzselect): Use it.
* tzselect.ksh: Use "#!/bin/bash", not "#! /bin/ksh". The Makefile
can override this. No need for a space after "!'; that was put in
years ago only because of an urban legend.
* Makefile (VERSION): New macro, superseding ...
(TZCODE_VERSION, TZDATA_VERSION): Remove. All uses changed.
(version.h): Call the variable TZVERSION, not TZCODE_VERSION.
All uses changed.
(tzselect): Interpolate TZVERSION, not TZCODE_VERSION.
(public): Adjust to new versioning scheme.
* tzselect.ksh (TZVERSION): Rename from TZCODE_VERSION.
* zdump.c, zic.c (main): Use TZVERSION, not TZCODE_VERSION.
Paul Eggert
Arthur David Olson
Arthur David Olson