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- >From: hao!asgb!devine@seismo.UUCP (Bob Devine)
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 86 18:00:40 mst
-
- >>From: Chris Torek <chris@MIMSY.UMD.EDU>
-
- >>Discussion of (1) why Daylight Saving Time should not be constrained
- >>to either 0 or 2 changes per year; and (2) cautioning against a
- >>timezone name that may contain numerals, '+', or '-'. Both points
- >>emphasized the possibility of future bizarre changes.
-
-
- Yes, I was aware and worried about both problems. However, in my
- search of timezones and DST rules worldwide I was not able to find any
- current or past rules that would have violated the assumptions. Future
- rules are unlikely to break the current conventions for fear of confusing
- everybody (it's bad enough now).
-
- Parsing the strings for TZ _COULD_ be done using reserved characters
- but that would really break the old usage of the TZ environment variable.
- I'm hoping to only bend it. Likewise, the library call that interprets
- the DST strings _COULD_ be written in a generalized fashion to handle any
- number of DST changes per year. However, I don't think such effort is
- required.
-
- Bob Devine
- (BTW, Sys V spell doesn't have "timezone" in its dictionary.)
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 52
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-