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From: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>
To: Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
Cc: GNATS Development <gnats-devel@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: New time zones
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 16:00:00 -0000
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At 20:38 01.05.2001 +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote:
>I think we should give up on adding new time zones and update getdate.y
>to a newer version instead.  getdate.y seems to be shared by more GNU
>programs (similarly as e.g. regexp.c) and I can't see any reason to
>divert from it.
>
>I also plan to replace %Z occurrences in strftime calls by %z.  This has
>already been applied in the Debian GNATS package long time ago and there
>were no problems reported about it.
>
>Any objections?

None whatsoever. Using a "standard" getdate.y is a good idea.

- Yngve