diff --git a/README b/README index 2bf0f8e..a2f128b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,25 +1,19 @@ %W% -Please send comments or information to seismo!elsie!ado (with, perhaps, -carbon copes to - cbosgd!mark - seismo!linus!encore!necis!geo - seismo!munnari!kre - and seismo!sun!guy -who are responsible for any good ideas that show up here). +Please send comments or information to + seismo!elsie!tz +for forwarding to folks interested in time zone matters. -If you're *really* adventurous, you can put ctime.o in /lib/libc.a-- -conservative soul that I am, I'd recommend against it. - -This version of the time zone software uses a new format (provided by sun!guy) +This version of the time zone software uses a new format +(based on the work of Guy Harris, a.k.a guy@sun.UUCP) for the time zone information files. They are now stored by default in a -directory named "/etc/zoneinfo" rather than "/etc/tzdir" or "/etc/timezones". +directory named "/etc/zoneinfo" rather than "/etc/tzdir" or "/etc/timezones" as before. If you've already compiled programs with older time zone software, just leave the "/etc/tzdir" and/or "/etc/timezones" files around until you have a chance to recompile. For better compatability with other versions of time conversion functions, -the time zone abbreviation to be used with localtime's return vale is now +the time zone abbreviation to be used with localtime's return value is now pointed to be one of the two elements of the (char *) array tzname, rather than by the (char *) tz_abbr. If you have code that uses tz_abbr, add a -DTZ_ABBR