Addition to Arthur Olsen/4.3bsd table-driven ctime
Keith Bostic
seismo!berkeley.edu!bostic%okeeffe
Tue Mar 31 18:37:09 UTC 1987
> I cannot be sure that my customers will install the necessary
> timezone support files. Therefore, any copy of ctime linked into
> my programs must work "correctly" when transported to a machine
> without /etc/zoneinfo in place.
Neither can you be sure that they will install /etc/passwd. You don't
handle that, why handle this? Not that I think that defaulting to GMT
is correct, I don't. However, I can trivially fix it so that worst
case is off by an hour. Which seems sufficient.
> I insist that both timezone and DST corrections be applied, even in
> the absence of /etc/zoneinfo, which means that ctime must carry
> some DST information along in its data segment, so it can perform
> at least as well as it used to.
This is unclear to me.
> The next question is, should any DST information hard-compiled
> into ctime be fixed to reflect recent changes? The surprising
> answer is "no."
That means that your worst case is off by an hour. (Ignoring double
DST.) The same as 4.3's. What am I missing?
--keith
> Steve Summit
> stevesu at copper.tek.com
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