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From: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Sys V Rel. 2 ZONEINFO
Summary: ado's zoneinfo
Keywords: ado@ncifcrf.gov zoneinfo
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.180807.7732@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Date: 13 Mar 90 18:08:07 GMT
References: <1177@telsys.aut.UUCP>
Reply-To: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Organization: Bank of Hawaii Tech Support
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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?
>
>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?
>
>
>-- 
>James R. Smithson	Ascom Autelca AG      CH-3073 Guemligen/Switzerland
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I can tell you this, the zoneinfo package is NOT NCR's own work.  It's a
*public domain* package, the latest incantation of which can be had from
volume18 of comp.sources.unix, look for the package called localtime3.
BTW, the tzsetwall() function is not in X3J11's work, which the timezone
package closely follows.  The package by default builds an object library
called 'libz.a', which is installed in /lib.  If you don't have that library,
NCR did something different.  IMHO NCR shouldn't implement such things
in their system without notifying the user of the deviation.  NCR manuals
give NO credit to ado@ncifcrf.gov, and users who don't know any better
will think this is a standard UNIX facility.  Mind you - I'm not against
NCR distributing some of the great PD software provided us by the net
community, I'd just like them to make it *optional*, perhaps have it on
a separate tape and allow users to install the things they want, and give
credit where it's due.  I'm personally glad if they removed it from OS 3.0.
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