Re: Problems with r40742

[Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>]

---- On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:47:52 -0700 Jeff Morriss  wrote ---- 

> > Looks like FreeBSD provides a timezone() function which they admit[1] is 
> not POSIX compliant[2]. And their time.h[3] doesn't seem to have any 
> kind of variable that gives the same functionality... 
>
> I guess what's needed is to: 
> - check for the variable at configure time 
> - if we don't have it, call localtime() to get a struct tm, and pull the 
> timezone offset out of there 
>
> Maybe the first step can just be skipped for simplicity, though. I'll 
> try to get to that tonight unless someone beats me to it. 

Thanks.  The description of localtime in your references and on Microsoft's site say that the timezone/_timezone 
variable is affected by the TZ variable.  Would the timezone from struct tm (tm_gmtoff?) behave in the same way (or 
does it need to?  I haven't looked at the surrounding code much).

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