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new and improved

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Arthur David Olson
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Please send comments or information to seismo!elsie!ado (with, perhaps,
carbon copes to
cbosgd!mark
seismo!linus!encore!necis!geo
seismo!munnari!kre
and seismo!sun!guy
who are responsible for any good ideas that show up here).
Please send comments or information to
seismo!elsie!tz
for forwarding to folks interested in time zone matters.
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)
This version of the time zone software uses a new format
(based on the work of Guy Harris, a.k.a guy@sun.UUCP)
for the time zone information files. They are now stored by default in a
directory named "/etc/zoneinfo" rather than "/etc/tzdir" or "/etc/timezones".
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.
For better compatability with other versions of time conversion functions,
the time zone abbreviation to be used with localtime's return vale is now
the time zone abbreviation to be used with localtime's return value is now
pointed to be one of the two elements of the (char *) array tzname, rather
than by the (char *) tz_abbr. If you have code that uses tz_abbr, add a
-DTZ_ABBR