Re: gettimeofday does noet return UTC offset

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

L. Maartens wrote:
> Suggestions anyone?

Hah!  I thought of something else right after I pressed send on the last 
message.  If what you want is the time from the software clock, here is 
some C code that will do that (posting C since that's what I have and 
since you are using gettimeofday() you must know how to use C code in RPG):

  time_t curtime;
  struct tm *curdate;

  curtime = time (NULL);
  curdate = localtime (&curtime);

The nice thing about this is that you can use the elements of struct tm 
to get nice values such as year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds, etc.

One interesting thing to note about the above code is that time() will 
increment predictably even over a daylight savings change.  That is 
because time() returns the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 - not 
the actual time of day (i.e. 4:00 p.m. on Oct. 29, 2003).  localtime() 
translates the number of seconds to a representation of the date and 
time.  Therefore the representation can go back and forward an hour but 
the actual time continues uninterrupted.

Also note that the time() function has been obsoleted by gettimeofday() 
in BSD 4.3.  But it still works on all my systems.

James Rich

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