obsolete stuff goes

SCCS-file: README
SCCS-SID: 7.7
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Arthur David Olson
2012-07-18 03:02:17 -04:00
committed by Paul Eggert
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%W%
XXX--get to cope with attempts to make zones such as "Europe/Berlin" the
XXX--POSIX template. Either must make doing so work, or catch the attempt in
XXX--zic. Catching the attempt in zic is half-hearted at best, since
XXX--someone could manually change the link later.
"What time is it?" -- Richard Deacon as The King
"Any time you want it to be." -- Frank Baxter as The Scientist
(from the Bell System film on time)
@@ -22,13 +27,6 @@ and as "part of the application" in others, there's no good way to name
functions, such as timegm, that are not part of the proposed ANSI C standard;
such functions have kept their old, underscore-free names in this update.)
Support for the tz_abbr variable has been eliminated from this version
(to forestall "kitchen sink" complaints from certain quarters :-).
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 "dysize" 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. The "date" command is not created when you "make all"