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Article #63Re: diffs for ctime.c for new DST rules, v7 systems
From: guy
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 18:24
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 18:24
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>I think we've all seen this coming, but shouldn't the writers of our >respective flavors of UNIX be providing the fixes. I'm not knocking >David's good intentions, but the DST switch can be viewed as a MAJOR >software bug worthy of an OFFICIAL update. The major software bug here is that the DST tables are compiled into programs. Arthur Olson of NIH has fixed this; he has posted various versions of a new flavor of "ctime" that reads the tables from a file, so if the rules change you just change the file. (No, stuffing it into the environment won't work: 1) the environment variable would have to be immensely long to hold a complete set of rules and 2) if you decided to get clever and call the environment variable "TZ", under S3/S5, at least, you'd break *all* the programs out there that don't expect all this goo in TZ and you'd have to recompile them all.)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!ptsfa!lll-lcc!ames!oliveb!sun!gorodish!guy From: guy@gorodish.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc Subject: Re: diffs for ctime.c for new DST rules, v7 systems Message-ID: <12998@sun.uucp> Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 13:24:29 EST Article-I.D.: sun.12998 Posted: Tue Feb 10 13:24:29 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Feb-87 20:32:22 EST References: <1565@lsuc.UUCP> <1151@ukecc.uky.csnet> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 15