Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/13/06:47:19
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:40:12PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Yitzchak wrote:
>>On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:10:03PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote:
>>>Would it be a lot of overhead to have something like tzset be called in
>>>the bootstrap code for launching Cygwin programs? Or maybe just have a
>>>DLL global default, based on windows time zone, and just allow
>>>processes to reset it for themselves (and any children.)
>
>>Either would be better than nothing. I'm very curious to know what
>>various flavors of unix do. As I said, my reading of susv3 is that TZ
>>should be checked with every call to localtime_r().
>
>If tzset() should be called in localtime_r() it is a bug in newlib and
>should be included there.
localtime_r doesn't come from newlib. It's a cygwin routine.
I checked in a fix a few days ago.
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.10&r2=1.11
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