Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:40:12 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere Message-ID: <7363911049.20040213124012@familiehaase.de> To: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: localtime_r not returning local time In-Reply-To: <20040212224445.GA3844@efn.org> References: <20040212224445 DOT GA3844 AT efn DOT org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/