Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: TZ Rationalization Requested - (nf) Message-ID: <2735@fortune.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 04:08:20 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2735 Posted: Sat Mar 10 04:08:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 00:27:16 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 16 #R:dual:-34100:fortune:11600070:000:540 fortune!rpw3 Mar 9 20:12:00 1984 Erik, there's even a worse problem! There really are timezones in the world that are GMT-3:30, for example. TZ's that are not integer hours from GMT didn't magically vanish with S5, just the support for them. (We discovered this when we went to compress the timezone info into a small bitfield in our configuration EAROM.) There are not many of them, but there are some. Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065