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From:	"Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
To:	"Cygwin" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject:	Question about timezone type
Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:14:31 +0200
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Hi,
I have found in /usr/include/time.h that timezone is defined as function with a
return value type of char *.  This seems to be incompatible with some unix
implementations like linux and irix which defines timezone as time_t (IRIX) or
long int (linux).

Can anybody tell me the reason for this ?

Ralf Habacker


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