timezone() errors

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Tue Aug 24 19:22:00 GMT 1999


On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 08:18:07PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>This is what Linux and IRIX have (effectively) but cygwin appears to
>be emulating the BSD version (but the cygwin version takes no
>parameters, unlike the link given previously).
>
>If it were up to me, I'd try to emulate the Linux API as closely as
>possible (where ansi/posix don't govern) but [the usual "backward
>compatibility" issues].
>
>> extern long int timezone;

Yeah, it's too bad that we can't emulate linux in this case.  I guess we
save this for B22 (or whatever) when we break backwards compatibility.

-chris


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