Daylight Savings Time

kirk at ihopa.UUCP kirk at ihopa.UUCP
Fri Mar 13 03:06:23 AEST 1987


In article <245 at ablnc.ATT.COM>, rcpilz at ablnc.ATT.COM (Robert C. Pilz) writes:
> 
> On April 5th at 2:00 AM, daylight savings time wil be in effect. This is
> 3 weeks earlier than normal. In UNIX System V, there is a library routine
> ctime(3C) which has the last weekend in April hardcoded into it rather
> than the first weekend. The program must be modified and recompiled
> along with 70+ programs that call ctime, ascitime, localtime, and date.

Does a change have to be made for October as well. Currently
DST starts on the last Sunday of October. I'd hate to have to recompile
again in October.



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