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From: guy@gorodish.UUCP
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Subject: Re: diffs for ctime.c for new DST rules, v7 systems
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 15:01:50 EST
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>The internal time may be incorrect, but it would forever (when referring
>to times between April 5 and April 27/87, for example) get it "right"
>when converting it through localtime().

This presumes that no software on the system would be bothered by the
internal time being incorrect; this may be true on some systems, but
I wouldn't make that assumption without studying all the software on
the system (including locally-developed software).