Good memory!
I wish. In this case, though, grep and a comprehensive text file of time zone electronic mail sufficed.-) --ado On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 8:13 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 12/7/20 1:29 PM, Arthur David Olson wrote:
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1996-May/date.html <https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1996-May/date.html> ...includes links to messages regarding the work done in 1996; check out the messages including "simultaneous" in the subject.
Thanks for the pointers. So it's a bit of code that you and I wrote, and that I'd totally forgotten about. Good memory!
For the record, the commit in question is dated 1996-05-16 13:48:28 -04 and can be found here:
https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/2f53da99b5fb6e0a4cf5861ed80d84643032aeec
and it says (in C) roughly what I attempted to write (in longer English) in the recent doc patch. Admittedly a bit of a delay between installing the code and installing the corresponding documentation....