1986-02-15 16:44:27 -05:00
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The shell archive of which this file is a part contains man pages for functions
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and a file format designed to deal with Daylight Savings Time variations.
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The basic idea is to have a system-wide directory that contains binary files
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describing time zone rules; functions such as "localtime" could read such
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files before doing time conversions.
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A manual page for a "time zone compiler" that turns text-file descriptions of
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time zone rules into binary files is also included, as is a sample input file
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for the compiler. These would, of course, not be part of the standard;
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they are included here only to show that the binary files that would be used
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under this scheme can be readily created.
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Source code for these functions and for the time zone compiler are available
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from seismo!elsie!ado, the person to whom to direct comments.
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