Re: localtime_r not returning local time

[Brian dot Kelly at Empireblue dot com]

YEA! - I need this fix since I use the localtime feature of perl and have
been stuck with 5.8.0 (and rolling back
to 5.6 required complete re-installation of all other CPAN modules) - which
had been removed from setup.

Anyhow THANK YOU!!!

( I know I should be a nice guy and test the snapshot - but unfortunately I
don't a suitible test environment available at the moment. )

( BURNING QUESTION  -  Are  *THANK YOU's*  from non-contributors  .......
off - topic??? )

Brian Kelly




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Subject:    Re: localtime_r not returning local time


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


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