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diff --git a/old/sh-utils/NEWS b/old/sh-utils/NEWS
index 3d6062cdb682066693f0624b63456419e3d5083d..b458eec3d078611062bdddb86c8b285952085666 100644 (file)
--- a/old/sh-utils/NEWS
+++ b/old/sh-utils/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 Changes in release 1.17
+* new autoconf tests detect bugs in vendor mktime from Irix-6.4 and SunOS4.1.4
+  Your executables will be a little larger on such systems because you'll use
+  GNU's mktime function, but date will work more reliably.
  [1.16f]
 * hostid: new program
 * `yes --help' and `yes --version' print those strings when the POSIXLY_CORRECT