Re: gettimeofday does noet return UTC offset -- RPG400-L

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L. Maartens wrote:

However, with the UTC sysval at +01:00, the miutes west of Greenwich still
gives returns zero in the timezone structure.

I think that this must be either a bug, or more likely, that I expect it the
return something that is not returned when not called from the Qshell or
Pase environment.

And I wrote:

microseconds since January 1, 1970.  It also (on some architectures)
fills out a structure detailing the timezone, specifically the minutes
west of Greenwich.  Is this what you are referring to?

Notice "on some architectures". Most likely is that the timezone structure is not filled out on the iSeries platform. If so, this is not a bug. It isn't filled out on linux either (and I don't think it is on *BSD). gettimeofday() is designed to tell what time the software clock thinks it is, not necessarily what timezone you are in. The time value in struct *tv is already adjusted for your timezone. Do you want to know what time it is or do you want to know what timezone you are in?

James Rich

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