RFC 8536, "The Time Zone Information Format (TZif)", February 2019

Errata ID: 6426
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Thomas Conner
Date Reported: 2021-02-12
Held for Document Update by: Barry Leiba
Date Held: 2021-02-21

Section B.3 says:

   | 000    | 54 5a 69 66  | magic            | "TZif"                 |
   | 004    | 33           | version          | '3' (3)                |
   | 005    | 00 00 00 00  |                  |                        |
   |        | 00 00 00 00  |                  |                        |
   |        | 00 00 00 00  |                  |                        |
   |        | 00 00 00     |                  |                        |
   | 020    | 00 00 00 00  | isutccnt         | 0                      |
   | 024    | 00 00 00 00  | isstdcnt         | 0                      |
   | 028    | 00 00 00 00  | isleapcnt        | 0                      |
   | 032    | 00 00 00 00  | timecnt          | 0                      |
   | 036    | 00 00 00 00  | typecnt          | 0                      |
   | 040    | 00 00 00 00  | charcnt          | 0                      |

It should say:

Delete this header.

Notes:

According to section 3.1 p. 6, the typecnt and charcnt fields of the header MUST NOT be zero.

===== Verifier notes =====
There are errors in these tables, but the suggested fix is not correct. There really needs to be a proper update to the document instead.

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