Bug#183772: libc6: zoneinfo/zone.tab missing entries without /

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:55:46 +1100,
Angus Lees wrote:
> 
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.1-11
> Severity: minor
> 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab seems to only include timezones of the
> form "foo/bar", excluding single component names like "NZ", "Japan",
> "UTC", etc.

Is this bug?  

> I note the checktab.awk script in the glibc source seems to only
> check/cope with such names too:
>  if (tz && tz ~ /\//) { ... zoneSeen[tz] = 1 }
> 
> perhaps that is why this omission has gone unnoticed. (glibc
> build/test doesn't seem to actually run checktab.awk either..)

...And does this cause a problem?  Is not this script only for
checking when maintainer modifies zone.tab?

I'm sorry I don't know timezone well, so please teach me what the
problem is.

Regards,
-- gotom