On Wed, 29 May 1996, Erik Bertelsen wrote:

> Maybe now is the time to remove these definitions completely as part of
> the clean-up for the release of 1.2.

This is clearly wrong in the case of some ports, such as i386, where DST
and TIMEZONE are used to indicate the offset of the hardware clock from
UTC.  Coexistence with other operating systems that don't have
altruistic notions about the RTC is necessary.

--scott