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From: wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Sys V Rel. 2 ZONEINFO
Keywords: TIMEZONE INFO DATABASE
Message-ID: <2059@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 90 17:56:22 GMT
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In article <3037@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Basically, the zoneinfo approach is a better idea but [...] we dropped it

> Coulda just merged 'em and had something SVID-compliant *and* Olsonish,
> y'know....

That's what I wanted to do but we didn't have the time (no pun intended).

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