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- From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
- Subject: Re: MachineLocation dlsDelta: can I set?
- References: <1992Nov13.180213.17821@netcom.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:36:41 GMT
- Keywords: MachineLocation dlsDelta
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- wdh@netcom.com (Bill Hofmann) writes:
-
- >IM V describes the MachineLocation struct and routines to set/get the
- >CPU's location. One of the fields is gmtFlags.dlsDelta, which is totally
- >undocumented, and from what I can tell, unused, but always 0. I'd love to
- >use it for, of all things, daylight savings delta information. Is there anyone
- >who knows anything about this field? Anyone care to email me on the
- >side with Apple's future plans? (I'm already so non-disclosed, I can't
- >tell you my real name...).
-
- Back in February, I asked an Apple person (whose identity I will
- protect) about just this issue and got the following response:
-
- >Unfortunately, there aren't any plans right now to use the dlsDelta field
- >of the MachineLocation record. That's really sad considering it's right
- >there and useable, but there's nothing there to trust, just like you
- >suspected.
-
- [...Some gross INIT ideas to slove a problem that I posed to him...]
-
- >I hope these ideas help you. It's a tough problem, and I can't think of any
- >clean solutions. If you decide to use a dirty solution like the one I
- >described, make sure you do a lot of testing, especially when new system
- >software releases are done. I'll suggest to the system software engineers
- >that the dlsDelta field should be used in future system software releases.
-
- It doesn't look good.
-
- pr
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- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
- Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC
- System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC
- Internet: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu
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