Todd C. Miller <todd.mil...@sudo.ws> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:21:28 -0600, "Todd C. Miller" wrote:
> 
> > That's fine with me.  Those interfaces appeared in SunOS 4.0 according
> > to tzcode (which is where we got them from).  They did *not* originate
> > in NetBSD.  I've verified that they were present in SunOS 4.1.3U1,
> > though that code appears to be derived from tzcode too.
> 
> Bit Savers has scans of the SunOS 4.0 print manuals which includes
> a hard-copy of the man pages.  Here you can see that timegm() and
> timelocal() were present in SunOS in 1987:
> 
> archive.org/details/bitsavers_sunsunos4.erenceManual198805_78292584/page/n823/mode/2up
> 
> However, they are not present in SunOS 3.5.  You can see the list
> of library functions from intro(3) which includes gmtime(3) and
> localtime(3) but not their inverses:
> 
> https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_sunsunos3.eManualInsertionPagesforRelease3.5198711_7929431/page/n145/mode/2up
> 
> So I think it is safe to say that those interfaces originated in
> SunOS 4.0 and not an earlier version.

I believe it.

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