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. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
