Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 00:08:54 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: ache@nagual.pp.ru, bde@zeta.org.au, helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6164 Message-ID: <199803301408.AAA31223@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>What do you think about simutaneous increasing local and utc times >until mktime() stops failing? What we need to get is new offset and Isn't that what adjkerntz -as does? >it will remains the same even after 6 hours beyond zone change. >I.e. I suggest not mktime(local) - mktime(utc) but >mktime(local + 6h) - mktime(utc + 6h). Don't you have to do both to see if there is no change? It would be fairly easy to calculate the time to sleep before a change can be made (6 months in some cases :-), but there isn't much point since waking up every 30 minutes is efficient enough (at least if it is only for a few hours). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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