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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:48:09 -0400
To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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At 11:40 PM -0400 6/10/04, Ken Smith wrote:
>
>Bruce pointed out several things but the kicker was that this code
>originally came from an import from a vendor branch.  We import the
>time zone data from that source fairly frequently.  We import the
>time zone code far less frequently.  But a gratuitous sweep through
>changing lots of variable/function names would make future code
>imports unnecessarily harder.  So I'll leave it as-is.
>
>Thanks again Bruce. :-)

Might it be a good idea to make a forced-commit just to include that
observation as a comment in the CVS history?

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