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Subject: Re: diffs for ctime.c for new DST rules, v7 systems
Message-ID: <1151@ukecc.uky.csnet>
Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 09:58:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  9 09:58:50 1987
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In article <1565@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>Both the U.S. and Canada (well, Ontario and at least some of the
>other provinces) are adopting the new daylight savings time rules,
>switching to DST the first Sunday in April instead of the last,
>beginning in 1987.  Below is a diff for /usr/src/libc/gen/ctime.c
>for v7 systems; if you're running v7 you should be able to feed
>this article right into "patch".

I think we've all seen this coming, but shouldn't the writers of our
respective flavors of UNIX be providing the fixes. I'm not knocking
David's good intentions, but the DST switch can be viewed as a MAJOR
software bug worthy of an OFFICIAL update.

Guess it's time to call AT&T...

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