Dec. 7, 1986
11:04 p.m.
Groan, yes I'd forgotten the v6 timezone - though it was an int, not a long, which caused all kinds or problems for Australians with 16 bit processors (I ran v6 on a 32 bit machine, so it disn't bother me). The problem was that you can't put -36000 in a 16 bit int... I believe that date(1) did print a zone name, but that it was compiled in. v7 made a bunch more incompatibilities than this one, the change in the meaning of the external "timezone" wasn't such a serious one. I have no doubt that getting bsd to drop the timezone function won't be a problem, once some respectable (agreed) way to replace it is found. kre