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Clarify getdate authorship.

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Paul Eggert
1999-12-03 13:03:44 +00:00
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@@ -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.