djm408@tijc02.UUCP (David Marks ) (11/16/87)
Congress is again mucking with the daylight savings time issue. H.R.435, "The Uniform Poll Closing Act", has passed the House of Representatives and is likely to pass the Senate. This will extend daylight savings time for two weeks in the Pacific Time Zone in presidential election years only. To be able to keep up with this and to have internationalization capabilities, daylight savings time conversion dates MUST BE CONFIGURABLE. It appears that in the matter of daylight savings time, no one can second guess a government. Anything that uses the unix ctime library routine is going to be in trouble, as the table used for daylight savings time conversions is a structure that is compiled in with the numbers hardcoded. Is making this configurable an SVID compliance issue? Is there anything else that is affected? How is AT&T handling this? Please send me mail and I will summarize to the net. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <standard/disclaimer.h> LIFE IS NOT A MALFUNCTION! David J. Marks Texas Instruments Ms 3520 Erwin Highway/P. O. Drawer 1255 Johnson City, TN. 37605 mcnc!rti!tijc02!djm408 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------