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