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