In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clive D.W. Feather " writes:
>[1] Microsoft has been known to get this wrong as well, attempting to apply >US rules to the EU. For once I'll defend Microsoft and say that they probably merely tried to be UNIX compatible here. Many years ago I ended up writing a small program which hunted down all binaries on the system, located the libc time functions if they were linked in (no shlibs back then), and patched up the DST code to implement EU rules. The scary part was that we had to send this hack to all customers because the vendor, Zilog in this particular case, only promised to fix it in the next release. I don't think it was generally gotten right until Olivetti fell into the SVR.4 trap. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
