Re: what is broken?

From: Steve Allen <sla_at_ucolick.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:10:06 -0700

On Tue 2000-09-19T22:51:43 +0100, Joseph S. Myers hath writ:
> because of the contradictory requirements that (a) the conversion of an OS
> timestamp to a (UTC or local time) display timestamp should not change
> over time or with updates of leap second tables (such changes have caused
> problems with FTP site mirroring in the past)

Is it not the case that (a) was just violated in every Australian Unix
system which had not updated its /usr/share{/lib}/zoneinfo files
before the early onset of summer time for the olympics?

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