From f02e40005c4cc3e497712230528e2e21ecd55ba1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 13:03:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify getdate authorship. --- doc/tar.texi | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index 958b287..3b5befa 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ Date input formats * Day of week item:: Monday and others. * Relative item in date strings:: next tuesday, 2 years ago. * Pure numbers in date strings:: 19931219, 1440. -* Authors of getdate:: Bellovin, Salz, Berets, et al. +* Authors of getdate:: Bellovin, Berets, Eggert, Salz, et al. Controlling the Archive Format @@ -5904,7 +5904,7 @@ midnight, 1 January 1970 UCT. * Day of week item:: Monday and others. * Relative item in date strings:: next tuesday, 2 years ago. * Pure numbers in date strings:: 19931219, 1440. -* Authors of getdate:: Bellovin, Salz, Berets, et al. +* Authors of getdate:: Bellovin, Berets, Eggert, Salz, et al. @end menu @@ -6084,9 +6084,10 @@ but not both. A @dfn{time zone item} specifies an international time zone, indicated by a small set of letters, e.g.@: @samp{UTC} for Coordinated Universal -Time. Any included period is ignored. By following a non-DST time zone -by the string @samp{DST} in a separate word (that is, separated by some -white space), the corresponding DST time zone may be specified. +Time. Any included period is ignored. By following a +non-daylight-saving time zone by the string @samp{DST} in a separate +word (that is, separated by some white space), the corresponding +daylight saving time zone may be specified. Time zone items are obsolescent and are not recommended, because they are ambiguous; for example, @samp{EST} has a different meaning in @@ -6179,10 +6180,6 @@ items, like in @samp{12:00 today}. The string @samp{this} also has the meaning of a zero-valued time displacement, but is preferred in date strings like @samp{this thursday}. -When a relative item makes the resulting date to cross the boundary -between DST and non-DST (or vice-versa), the hour is adjusted according -to the local time. - @node Pure numbers in date strings @section Pure numbers in date strings @@ -6214,17 +6211,19 @@ year. @cindex authors of @code{getdate} @cindex Bellovin, Steven M. -@cindex Salz, Rich @cindex Berets, Jim +@cindex Eggert, Paul @cindex MacKenzie, David @cindex Meyering, Jim +@cindex Salz, Rich @code{getdate} was originally implemented by Steven M. Bellovin (@samp{smb@@research.att.com}) while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The code was later tweaked by a couple of people on Usenet, then completely overhauled by Rich $alz (@samp{rsalz@@bbn.com}) and Jim Berets (@samp{jberets@@bbn.com}) in August, 1990. Various revisions for the @sc{gnu} system were made by David MacKenzie, Jim Meyering, -and others. +and others. The code was rewritten again in August, 1999 by Paul Eggert, +to improve its support for daylight saving time. @cindex Pinard, F. @cindex Berry, K. -- 2.45.2