| Subject: | Documentation for Z+ CLDR patterns is incorrect |
DateTime-Format-CLDR has the same documentation bug that I reported in
DateTime as RT#64387 (probably because you copied the docs from DateTime).
The CLDR Patterns documentation says:
Z{1,3} The time zone short name and the offset as one string, so
something like "CDT-0500".
ZZZZ The time zone long name.
However, what the code actually *does* is:
Z{1,3} The time zone offset (like "-0500")
ZZZZ The time zone short name and the offset as one string, so
something like "CDT-0500".
Since the actual behavior is more useful than the documented behavior
(and because DateTime has already changed its docs), I'm calling this a
documentation bug. (According to the documentation, there's no way to
parse just the offset without the short name.) Also, that means you can
fix it without breaking anybody's code.