Re: Notes about timezones...

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

The definitive answer:

In order to use the _timezone variable you must explicitly call tzset().

E.G.:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int
main (void)
{
  tzset();
  printf( "timezone: %d\n", _timezone );
}




---Keet / Foxbird <Keetnet@wilmington.net> wrote:
>
> At 05:52 AM 11/3/98 -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> >I believe that the SECSPERMIN macro is set to zero.  It is not
defined
> >in any header file and the fact that zero times something is always
> >zero.
> >
> 
> Sorry I didn't include that, but it's way up top of the times.cc
file in
> the source of the winsup directory for cygwin, I just didn't catch
it. But
> even if I do add the define SECSPERMIN to the top of my program, or
> anywhere else, it still doesn't do any good.
> 
> Anyone have any more ideas? Every bit is greatly appreciated as it
just
> might fix the problem.
> 
> - Greg Neujahr
>   keetnet@wilmington.net
> 
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