<i18n dev> RFR: 8339644: Improve parsing of Day/Month in tzdata rules [v3]

[Justin Lu]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 21:49:30 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Fixing TZDB build tool to accommodate full month/day names. Recently released tzdb2024b included (inadvertently) full month name "April", which is allowed by the spec (zic.8), but never used. This will cause build failure of the JDK. The proposed fix is manually tested by modifying the tzdb files to include full month names, and confirmed the successful build of the JDK.
>
> Naoto Sato has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Strictly conforming to the spec

Marked as reviewed by jlu (Committer).

New fix LGTM.

> Month names may be abbreviated as mentioned previously;
> for example, January can appear as
> .q January ,
> .q JANU
> or
> .q Ja ,
> but not as
> .q j

So I think it's safe to assume unambiguous abbreviations.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20893#pullrequestreview-2287223428
PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20893#issuecomment-2334879456