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- >From: pyramid!pyrcorp!ncr-sd!greg
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 86 22:45:20 pst
- Subject: Re: TZ and TERM per process
- Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo
-
- >>From: floyd!opus!ka@SEISMO.CSS.GOV (Kenneth Almquist)
- >Date: Tue, 28 Jan 86 21:46:36 EST
- >Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
- >
- >This article proposes a method of handling time zones which I think
- >meets all the requirements that have been mentioned.
- >
- > [ a scheme where timezone information is kept in a binary table
- > and read in upon demand. Also includes a clever technique for
- > allowing users to use non-local timezones while permiting system
- > programs to still run in local time. ]
- >
- >Any problems with this?
-
- An interesting idea; I'd like to see it explored further. The impact
- would not seem to be great, there are minimal changes to existing code,
- it allows flexibility in the choice of timezone, and it has a system-wide
- default that isn't compiled in.
-
- There's one change I would suggest: the offset for each daylight savings
- time should be specified independently; sometimes the clock shift is
- not exactly one hour -- there are some areas with double daylight
- savings (two hours different), for example. The name of the zone may
- have to be specified, as well. Perhaps a better way would be to have
- some entries that compactly represent the usual case (one hour offset,
- standard name) and then have some provision for non-standard offsets
- and names.
- --
- -- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 28
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