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- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 86 13:14:34 EST
- From: elsie!ado@SEISMO.CSS.GOV
-
- Source for the time zone compiler discussed here earlier has been posted to
- mod.sources. The new posting incorporates changes suggested by net readers:
-
- * "newctime" now returns a pointer to a string of exactly the
- same form as that returned by "ctime"--no time zone abbreviation
- appended.
-
- * the format of "time zone information files" has been changed so that
- the files can hold descriptions of arbitrarily large size.
-
- I agree with munnari!kre--certainly the P1003 standard ought not require
- conforming implementations to provide exhaustive time conversion capabilities;
- kre's note about what the standard actually might look like is a good starting
- place. Still, the standard ought to allow folks to do arbitrary time
- conversion if they want to; the mod.sources posting should provide both an idea
- of just how arbitrary governments have been (and can be expected to be) in
- defining "local time," and an idea of the sort of mechanism that would be
- required to deal with this arbitrariness.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 68
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