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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:44:46 -0800
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: localtime_r not returning local time
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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().

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