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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:40:12 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
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Subject: Re: localtime_r not returning local time
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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.

Gerrit
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