localtime_r not returning local time

Gerrit P. Haase freeweb@nyckelpiga.de
Fri Feb 13 15:48:00 GMT 2004


Christopher wrote:

> 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

This is great, many thanks.

Gerrit
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