"Countdown to Confusion: Daylight Saving Time Comes Early This Year, But Will Your Computer Know When to Switch?" appeared on page D1 (front of the business section) of the Saturday, March 3 Washington Post. Prime nugget: "The newsletter of the Los Alamos National Laboratory recently reminded employees to reset clocks on coffeemakers that are programmed to start brewing while the owner is waking up, showering[,] or dressing. The nation's most vital atomic secrets, it seems, should not be entrusted to scientists running low on java. --ado
I've often wondered why zdump has a -c (cutoff-time) switch to stop printing after a given point, yet there's no -s for start time? It's a pretty trivial modification - diffs (against version 7.31) attached.
Recent versions of zdump do handle start times. --ado Script started on Mon 12 Mar 2007 10:26:18 AM EDT lecserver$ zdump -? zdump: illegal option -- ? zdump: usage is zdump [ --version ] [ -v ] [ -c [loyear,]hiyear ] zonename ... lecserver$ exit script done on Mon 12 Mar 2007 10:26:26 AM EDT -----Original Message----- From: Paul Goyette [mailto:pgoyette@juniper.net] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 9:11 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: zdump - why no 'start time' switch? I've often wondered why zdump has a -c (cutoff-time) switch to stop printing after a given point, yet there's no -s for start time? It's a pretty trivial modification - diffs (against version 7.31) attached.
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Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] -
Paul Goyette