Dennis E. Hamilton

> @masinter please compare and contrast with @fghalasz analysis and proposal > > ... My reading of this (and my experiences with Linux - mainly in the Debian/Ubuntu arena) says...

> @nbriggs ... building OS packages is another way (say, Debian packages, macOS installation packages for, say, /Applications/Interlisp with everything that's static kept under there). macOS has similar concepts to...

In a buddy call today, my pal William Anderson was looking for some of his MacOS code to move to a replacement machine. He looked in the obvious user, opt,...

DST adjustments are location dependent as are time zones. And date-times in the past are often wacky with regard to a recorded local time being DST or not. Can you...

@masinter > I don't remember understanding why secure systems need accurate clocks Addendum: There are also timestamp services that I presume require some level of time synchronization. These are used...

> Documentation (as of 1985) says ... > The current US situation, for those states that observe DST, is that it starts on or before March 14, day 74 in...

@nbriggs > Of course Interlisp could set the DST and time zone from the underlying host, but what does that mean in a world where I'm running an instance in...

It's probably safe to use a universal time (whether seconds from an origin), as long as the origin timezone is understood. I assume that is UTC in modern systems. Some...

> I want PDF files with Unicode text and reasonable XMP metadata, as a way of capturing TEdit file output and Lisp pretty-printed sources. I concur. PDF is also nicely...

I suppose this is related to Issue #590 also. I looked at Medley source file CLEVAL and clipped out CL:DEFUN. It was detected as Common Lisp (after I installed one...