From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern) Subject: Re: How to get correct timezone offset? Date: 19 Apr 1993 16:43:24 GMT
In article <1qtndo$2pu@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) writes:
|> Eugene Crosser (crosser@pccross.msk.su) wrote:
|> : In Linux in the is no 'altzone' external variable, and no tm_tzadj
|> : element in 'struct tm' structure. So, I see no regular way to find
|> : current difference between local time and GMT. I don't count the idea
|> : of computing difference between outputs of gmtime() and localtime()
|> : calls...
|>
|> : So, the question is: how to find the current timezone offset (with
|> : respect to possible daylight savings) from a C program?
|>
|> Maybe you should use the timezone Packages (also on SLS)
|> This should help.. (Someone has to add the manpages for this..., they are
|> missing :-((( )
|>
|> Gruss
|> Wolfgang
|>
In the /usr/zoneinfo (or is it /usr/lib/zoneinfo? use 'find') directory on my
installation of SLS (3/21/93), there is a 'time.doc' file that gives necessary
explanations for using the utility.
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