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From: gallen@apollo.COM (Gary Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Calendar sync
Message-ID: <3d8b6820.d8e9@apollo.COM>
Date: 29 Jul 88 19:44:00 GMT
References: <3268562@um.cc.umich.edu> <61901@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: gallen@diskless.UUCP (Gary Allen)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <61901@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
[......]
>The *VERY* old days.  Ever since V7, the name and GMT offset of the current
>time zone, as well as an indication of whether DST was observed or not, has
>been fetched at run time from some source.  It came from the kernel in V7, so
>you either had to recompile the system or have some program to patch the
>kernel; 4.2BSD added a system call to change this information.  It came from
>the environment in S3 and S5.

Hey Guy,
 Watch what you're calling *VERY* old :-)

Gary Allen
Apollo Computer
Chelmsford, Ma
{decvax,yale,umix}!apollo!gallen

I'm not older than dirt. I did know it when it was only sand, though.