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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time
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Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 16:27:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 16:27:15 1985
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> > If there is a computable algorithm, it can be expressed on the computer in
> > some simple form, even if only via numerical methods.
> 
> But the problem is that it cannot always be expressed in any algorithm.
> On Unix it currently is expressed in an algorithm, and that is going to
> screw people if Congress changes the rules.

I can see it now. . ."/etc/dsttab".  :-)
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