diff --git a/README b/README index c9394c2..ec7ba1a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -6,18 +6,23 @@ TODO BEFORE comp.sources RELEASE: * Should /etc/zoneinfo/GMT0 change to /etc/zoneinfo/GMT, with the necessary change to the newctime.3 manual page? If it is changed, all the GMT0's can disappear from localtime.c. +* Should (a variant of) the old "etcetera" file be reinstated, to + ensure that folks in out-of-the-way places can do things such as + zic -l GMT5 + to establish a reasonable approximation to their time zone as local + time? * Gotta get "date.c" up to speed, and must conditionalize "logwtmp.c" - for the System V world. - In particular, how to handle ambiguous 10-character arguments to date + for the System V world. In particular, what about the + date 2415 + stuff? And how to handle ambiguous 10-character arguments to date such as date 0102030405 where it's unclear whether the year is at the start (UCB style) - or the end (System V style)? Also--toss in a "-a" (adjust time) + or the end (System V style)? Also--toss in a "-a" (adjust tieme) option for the Sun world? * Could use a date manual page. * Need to update the newctime.3 to describe the treatment of TZ's such as "Guy Mean Time", if it's decided that the treatment is reasonable. -* Turn most everything into version "5.1". =============================================================================== @@ -46,9 +51,9 @@ Support for Turbo C compilation has also been eliminated; it was present to allow checking in an ANSI-style environment, and such checking is now done with gcc. -And the "dyzise" function has disappeared; it was present to allow compilation -of the "date" command on old BSD systems, and a version of "date" is now -provided in the package. +And the "dyzise" has disappeared; it was present to allow compilation of the +"date" command on old BSD systems, and a version of "date" is now provided in +the package. Since POSIX frowns on correct leap second handling, the default behavior of the "zic" command (in the absence of a "-L" option) has been changed to omit