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Arthur David Olson
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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ the usefulness of the SVR2 functions:
Greenwich Mean Time in hours, followed by an optional three-letter
name for a daylight time zone;" when the optional daylight time zone is
present, "standard U.S.A. Daylight Savings Time conversion is applied."
This means that SVR2 can't deal with other (for example, Australian)
This means that SVR2 can't deal with other (for example, Australian)
daylight savings time rules, or situations where more than two
time zone abbreviations are used in an area.
@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ the usefulness of the SVR2 functions:
time_t values when doing conversions for places that don't use GMT.
* In SVR2, there's no tamper-proof way for a process to learn the
system's best idea of local wall clock. (This is important for
system's best idea of local wall clock. (This is important for
applications that an administrator wants used only at certain times--
without regard to whether the user has fiddled the "TZ" environment
variable. While an administrator can "do everything in GMT" to get
@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Points of interest to folks with Version 7 or BSD systems:
* The BSD "timezone" function is not present in this package;
it's impossible to reliably map timezone's arguments (a "minutes west
of GMT" value and a "daylight saving time in effect" flag) to a
time zone abbreviation, and we refuse to guess.
time zone abbreviation, and we refuse to guess.
Programs that in the past used the timezone function may now examine
tzname[localtime(&clock)->tm_isdst] to learn the correct time
zone abbreviation to use. Alternatively, use localtime(&clock)->tm_zone