Re: gettimeofday does noet return UTC offset

["L. Maartens" <l.maartens@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am indeed looking for the minutes west of Greenwich, which i think means
the same thing as the UTC offset. I do indeed pass the two structures, time
and timezone. I did expect the minutes west of Greenwch to contain something
as 360, meaning 6 hours to be subtracted from the time provided. (This can
also be a negative number, meaning that you are east of Greenwich.)

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.

Suggestions anyone?

Loek.




> AFAIK, gettimeofday() does not return the offset at all.  It returns
> zero if the call completed mormally, or -1 on failure (in which case
> errno is set appropriately).  It fills out the structure passed to it
> (unles that structure is NULL) with the number of seconds and
> 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?
>
> James Rich
>
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> words on the subject of compassion from Stalin."
>        -- mormop on lwn.net
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