FW: Timezone utility

Olson, Arthur David (NCI) olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov
Tue Aug 8 12:46:05 UTC 2000


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				--ado

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Henry Grebler [SMTP:henryg at optimation.com.au]
> Sent:	Monday, August 07, 2000 10:31 PM
> To:	tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
> Subject:	Timezone utility
> 
> 
> 
> #To:		tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
> 
> #From:		henryg at optimation.com.au
> 		Henry Grebler
> 		Support Manager
> 		Optimation Software Engineering Pty Ltd
> 		Level 9 West, 608 St Kilda Road
> 		Melbourne, Vic, 3004, Australia
> 
> 		Phone:	+61 3 9525 2111	Fax:	+61 3 9521 1733
> 		URL:	http://www.optimation.com.au
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> First of all, thanks for providing a valuable service. I guess under
> normal situations your work would go unheralded - when things are
> going right no one notices. It's only when your car breaks down that
> you look under the bonnet (hood).
> 
> I'm hoping I have found an opportunity to give a little (very little)
> back.
> 
> We in Australia have been taking a keener-than-usual interest in tz
> stuff with the advent of the Olympic Games. So, naturally, I
> eventually found myself downloading from your website.
> 
> I look after several different platforms (Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX,
> IRIX, etc). It soon became clear to me that something was missing. I
> felt that, it's all very well to make changes to the timezone
> database; how do I test that the changes will work? And there's
> the rub. It's not the time now that is at issue. One can immediately
> confirm that the time right now is correct. What I want to know is,
> Will it be correct at some time in the future?
> 
> To address this issue, I have written a little utility, cvt_time. I
> enclose source, Makefile and man page. I have chosen to store it in
> the 'misc' subdirectory of the 'src' directory. It is enclosed as a
> tar, gzip, uuencode. If you think it is worthwhile, please feel free
> to distribute it or make it available in any way you see fit.
> 
> Regards,
> Henry
> 
> 
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