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and seismo!sun!guy
who are responsible for any good ideas that show up here).
The "ctime.c" source file does conversion of old-style calls to new-style calls;
when you do a
make
both "ctime.o" and "settz.o" are archived in "/usr/lib/libtz.a" so that you can
recompile old code a la
cc ... -ltz
to use the new functions. If you're *really* adventuresome, you can put ctime.o
and settz.o in the C library--conservative soul that I am, I'd recommend
against it.
If you're *really* adventurous, you can put ctime.o in /lib/libc.a--
conservative soul that I am, I'd recommend against it.
This version of the time zone software uses a new format (provided by sun!guy)
for the time zone information files. They are now stored by default in a
directory named "/etc/timezones" rather than being stored in "/etc/tzdir" as
before. If you've already compiled programs with the old time zone software,
just leave the "/etc/tzdir" files around until you have a chance to recompile.
directory named "/etc/zoneinfo" rather than "/etc/tzdir" or "/etc/timezones".
as before. If you've already compiled programs with older time zone software,
just leave the "/etc/tzdir" and/or "/etc/timezones" files around until you
have a chance to recompile.
Historical local time information has been included here not because it
is particularly useful, but rather to: