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From: andre@nrcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.internat,net.lan,net.news.sa,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Need info on GMT/DST issues
Message-ID: <668@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 19:45:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: nrcvax.668
Posted: Thu Jun  5 19:45:36 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jun-86 03:43:18 EDT
References: <290@foxvax5.UUCP>
Reply-To: andre@nrcvax.UUCP (Andre Hut)
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Organization: Network Research Research Corp.  Oxnard,CA
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Keywords: time, GMT, DST, locattime
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In article <290@foxvax5.UUCP> dbr@foxvax5.UUCP (D.B. Robinson (Douglas)) writes:
>Sorry to bother.  Some time ago there was a discussion in one of these
>newsgroups about the time on a network, its format and its
>ramifications.  Well, this issue is now rearing its ugly head at the
>company I work for.  Some people here want to REMOVE both the idea of
>GMT and DST from the UNIX we sell altogether.  Remarkably enough this

The DARPA protocol IP needs to generate timestamps which contain the time
in milliseconds since midnight Universal Time (GMT).  If you plan on
having the DARPA protocols supported, you better have a way to supply
these values when needed.
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