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Article #2066Re: Flame: Problem with zoo: restoring times
From: Greg Woods
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 18:42
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 18:42
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In article <3453@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <5930001@eecs.nwu.edu>, gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
> > For those systems, is there any harm in pretending that they *are* on GMT?
>
> Sure. I zoo up an archive on my Amiga, and unzoo it on a UNIX box. All the
> times are now off.
What would be a better solution, provided you absolutely must run your
machine on local time (an idea I absolutely detest) or that you cannot
replace enough of your O/S to fool yourself into thinking you have your
machine running on GMT (for example, on a PC use the MKS toolkit which
properly handles TZ)? I suggest that zoo archives (another thing I find
very little use for) store GMT internally, and for those O/S's that
can't manage to relate to the rest of the world, zoo may be compiled
with a local time conversion factor built in.
--
Greg Woods.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!woods From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Flame: Problem with zoo: restoring times Summary: standard times Keywords: GMT time Message-ID: <1989Feb19.134220.29438@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> Date: 19 Feb 89 18:42:20 GMT References: <2884@mhres.mh.nl> <5930001@eecs.nwu.edu> <3453@sugar.uu.net> Reply-To: woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods) Organization: Elegant Communications, Inc. Lines: 20 Checksum: 44373