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[ANN] Utilities for 4.3BSD: set post-Y2K date, etc.

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Dario Niedermann

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Apr 25, 2019, 10:07:03 AM4/25/19
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Hi! I am releasing 'datekit-1.0' for 4.3BSD-Reno: a couple of free
utilities for setting post-Y2K date and time, plus timezone and DST.

Here's a brief outtake from the README, detailing the archive contents:

[...]
date.c
the 4.3BSD-Quasijarus `date' program, modified to optionally accept
4-digit years, and default to post-2000 for 2-digit years [...]
It can also:
+ set Daylight Saving Time: option -d
[...]
+ set a time zone: -t minutes-West-of-Greenwich.
Negative values for East.

rdate.c
the `rdate' program ported from OpenBSD 2.0: it synchronizes your
machine's clock to that of a remote host, by connecting to the
host's "time" service.
[...]

Man page for `rdate' and a Makefile for both programs are provided.

All of the above made and tested in 4.3BSD-Reno, on an emulated
VAX-11/780.

Archive for download at:
<gopher://darioniedermann.it/1/Computing/sw/datekit>

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