[tz] Introduce Etc/UTC+x timezones?
Robert Elz
kre at munnari.OZ.AU
Fri Apr 21 19:55:35 UTC 2023
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:42:39 -0400
From: Garrett Wollman via tz <tz at iana.org>
Message-ID: <25666.55583.30059.744338 at khavrinen.csail.mit.edu>
| Sixth Edition
| does not appear to contain the ftime(2) system call, although its
| source code structure is a lot less polished (there were still `ken`
| and `dmr` directories) so I can't be entirely sure I've looked in all
| the right places.
There was no ftime() everything was compiled into libc which in 6th
edition contained the line:
int timezone 5*60*60;
which we'd write in modern C as
int timezone = 5 * 60 * 60;
That was for US Eastern time, and shows a positive timezone being used
to mean west of Greenwich. I think it was that way in 5th edition as
well - before then is before my time.
kre
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