From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2006 - 09:06:30 EDT
Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:20:08PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>
>> Back to this thread again.
>> So, after chatting with some OpenBSD devs, the included patch should fix the
>> issue.
>> It would be nice to officialy include it, if the fix is OK with you (and maybe
>> with an #ifdef in case it only applies to OpenBSD).
>
> The glibc documentation says: "The `tm_gmtoff' field is derived from BSD
> and is a GNU library extension; it is not visible in a strict ISO C
> environment." So it should be OK for Linux and *BSD, but may still need
> an autoconf feature test for other platforms.
>
> Also, the meaning of tm_gmtoff is not the same as the global timezone
> variable:
>
> -- Variable: long int timezone
> [...]
> Unlike the `tm_gmtoff' member of the broken-down time structure,
> this value is not adjusted for daylight saving, and its sign is
> reversed. In GNU programs it is better to use `tm_gmtoff',
> since it contains the correct offset even when it is not the
> latest one.
I have a portable fix that I am working on right now.
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