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From: wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Sys V Rel. 2 ZONEINFO
Keywords: TIMEZONE INFO DATABASE
Message-ID: <2052@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 90 16:16:25 GMT
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In article <1177@telsys.aut.UUCP> jsmithso@aut.UUCP (Jim Smithson) writes:
> Has anyone worked with the NCR timezone software(/etc/zoneinfo files)
> under NCR System V Release 2.01.01? It all seems very good except that
> I cannot figure out which library the tzsetwall() function ( See ctime(3C) )
> is in.  Any clues?

Try libcieee.a, in localtime.o.

> From other articles in this newsgroup I see that the NCR is doing
> away with the /etc/zoneinfo stuff in System V release 3.
> Can anyone say why it was removed? Did it work?

It worked fairly well.  There were some backwards compatibility and
installation problems involving programs that had old ctime(3) routines
compiled in.

Basically, the zoneinfo approach is a better idea but in our hurry to get
SVID compliant SysVr3 to market we dropped it in favor of the AT&T SysVr3
approach.  Only to see the zoneinfo stuff appear in SysVr4.
--
	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM