Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!uwvax!husc6!husc8!edwards From: edwards@husc8.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Ultrix, DST, and ctime Message-ID: <1622@husc6.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 08:52:19 EST Article-I.D.: husc6.1622 Posted: Thu Apr 9 08:52:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 11:35:20 EST References: <948@copper.TEK.COM> <15918@sun.uucp> <963@copper.TEK.COM> <11496@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <1604@husc6.UUCP> <16370@sun.uucp> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: edwards@husc8.UUCP (Bill Edwards) Distribution: na Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 33 Xref: utgpu comp.unix.wizards:1714 comp.bugs.4bsd:284 In article <16370@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes: >>>What kinds of inducement can Ultrix sites provide DEC to incorporate the >>>Olsen ctime mods into Ultrix: everybody file an SPR Then I wrote (though I cancelled the article the morning following): >> >>They already have done it in Ultrix 2.0. The following was done on a >>machine running 2.0, and is self-explanatory: >> >># date >>Tue Apr 7 14:25:09 EDT 1987 Then Guy Harris wrote: > >All that shows is that they've fixed the DST tables somehow, not that >they've necessarily put Olson's code in. Sun also fixed the DST >tables in SunOS 3.2, but we didn't put the Olson code in at that >point (the code was still in a state of flux, and 3.2 wasn't >designated a major release). We hope to put it into the next major >release. Didn't mean to muddy the waters. All I was claiming was that DST is done correctly in Ultrix 2.0. (starts Apr. 5, instead of Apr. 26), not anything about the Olson code (which is the table-driven ctime, no?). Sorry... -- Bill Edwards ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Edwards edwards@harvard.harvard.edu (ARPA) UNIX Systems Programmer/Analyst ...!harvard!edwards (UUCP) Harvard Science Center edwards@harvunxu (BITNET) 1 Oxford Street hucsc::edwards (DECNET) Cambridge, MA 02138