gettimeofday()
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paul at unisoft.UUCP
Sun May 1 16:39:29 AEST 1988
In article <51320 at sun.uucp> guy at gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>
>1) Could not "gettimeofday()" have a static flag that indicates whether it's
> called "tzset()" or not, so that only the first call to "gettimeofday()"
> calls "tzset()"?
actually it ought to read it, maybe not everytime but at least once every 10-15
minutes (think of a server daemon - like CAP aufs etc that runs for potentially
months or years at a time)) just in case the timezone changed (ie those two
times twice a year when the daylight-saving changes)
>
>2) Does not "gettimeofday()" avoid calling "tzset()" at all if "timezone" is
yes ... this is a bug and has been reported to "the proper authorities" along
with the fix ...
> NULL? Lots of programs (all the properly-written ones) that call
> "gettimeofday()" explicitly indicate their disinterest in the timezone
unfortunately there are some out there that don't :-(
Paul
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