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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time, Leap Years, ctime, and date
Message-ID: <9994@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Apr 89 05:30:27 GMT
References: <1006@necis.UUCP> <439@rb-dc1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <439@rb-dc1.UUCP> shapiro@rb-dc1.SanDiego.gould.UUCP (Michael Shapiro) writes:
>In article <1006@necis.UUCP> adamm@necis.UUCP (Adam Moskowitz) writes:
>>  4) Was anything done to make it easier to rewrite the rules for DST?
>A couple of years ago, I looked at this problem ...
>Now let's try to come up with a programmable algorithm for that!

??? Where have you guys been?  A completely table-driven implementation
of the time conversion routines (using external text files containing
the rules, which may be exceedingly baroque) was developed and placed
into the public domain well over a year ago.  elsie!ado seemed to be
the chief instigator of this and is now working on an improved version.