guy@sun.UUCP (07/11/86)
> Well I devised a new approach to the problem. Just like > the old days on UNIX, you had to re-compile the accounting > software for holiday changes. Now there's a holiday table > that can be edited for the necessary changes. Well I took > a similar approach to ctime.c(3c). Arthur D. Olson came up with such a scheme; his scheme is more general than the pre-4.2 "ctime", and even more general than that one. It looks like it can handle non-US time zone stuff correctly, and doesn't require you to get TZ set in the environment. I believe his source was posted to "net.sources" or "mod.sources". > The only problem (which is a MAJOR one), is that all current > programs that utilize ctime() must be re-compiled !!!! > Boy what a job that could be. I wonder if anyone else has > a better idea ?? Nope. However, maybe all vendors will come out with new releases before it hits us. -- Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)