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authorGarrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1996-07-18 19:40:52 +0000
committerGarrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>1996-07-18 19:40:52 +0000
commit22c654616a6e4e17e2c466703c05694f2c63d174 (patch)
tree5bb40c2780914cac6b47ab1a23782ab90b18fc60 /usr.sbin/zic/README
parent979a211643ccba0ec4121184236acd4ffa1a8dea (diff)
Second part of the timezone code import for version 96h. This includes
a number of bug fixes to the compiler (which bugs would previously have caused undesirable behavior during transition times).
Notes
svn path=/vendor/tzcode/dist/; revision=17211
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/zic/README')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/zic/README b/usr.sbin/zic/README
index 5eea1a2bcc96..3ca53ca3f530 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/zic/README
+++ b/usr.sbin/zic/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@(#)README 7.5
+@(#)README 7.8
"What time is it?" -- Richard Deacon as The King
"Any time you want it to be." -- Frank Baxter as The Scientist
@@ -22,13 +22,6 @@ 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"
@@ -64,9 +57,10 @@ Thanks to these Timezone Caballeros who've made major contributions to the
time conversion package: Keith Bostic; Bob Devine; Paul Eggert; Robert Elz;
Guy Harris; Mark Horton; John Mackin; and Bradley White. Thanks also to
Michael Bloom, Art Neilson, Stephen Prince, John Sovereign, and Frank Wales
-for testing work. None of them are responsible for remaining errors.
+for testing work, and to Gwillim Law for checking local mean time data.
+None of them are responsible for remaining errors.
-Look in the ~ftp/pub directory of elsie.nci.nih.gov (128.231.16.1)
+Look in the ~ftp/pub directory of elsie.nci.nih.gov
for updated versions of these files.
-Please send comments or information to ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov.
+Please send comments or information to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov.