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Re: Timezone name in Debian changelog format



On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:40:58AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> So given that the timezone name has never been accepted, many
> time-parsing functions ignore it, it is redundant, declared obsolete
> by RFC5322 and Debian policy dropped an explicit reference to it due
> to bug 569174. I'd say we should just drop it instead of fixing the
> regex. Comments?

Go ahead. As you have just shown, there are plenty of good reasons to
drop it and little to keep it.

[ I did a little experiment and could not find a single timezone name
  in my 18 years of changelogs ].


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