From f9d9d1cbb4dd69bf2f03fb7ecc6380f4ccb6e350 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 17:13:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] .

---
 old/sh-utils/NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/old/sh-utils/NEWS b/old/sh-utils/NEWS
index 3d6062cdb..b458eec3d 100644
--- 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