Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So seeing "GMT" in early Unix documents doesn't necessarily mean what
> you think it means, especially given the first hand accounts of
> participants on this list who specifically asked the people that
> originally wrote it what the intention behind the words was. POSIX
> changed the name to get the intention right, then "simplified" the
> actual rules to make ti "easier" to implement for the "vast majority" of
> users.

I thought they just specified what the existing code did, with the aim of
making the rules more precise, not simpler.

Tony.
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