Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:08:16 -0700 From: "Peter Steele" <psteele@webmail.maxiscale.com> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: How to signal a time zone change? Message-ID: <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA431F7175@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com> References: <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA431F716A@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com> <4A7C9738.10103@elischer.org> <B8A480488C0C6849826655761349EA431F7171@owa.webmail.maxiscale.com> <eaec67500908071423v95b7214t30a48ad3d75c3cd@mail.gmail.com>
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>What's the value of the TZ environment variable for the C apps? You may need to have them read the new value from somewhere, and then rerun tzset(). The default value of the TZ environment variable is null. I just tried passing the explicitly time zone value to the C app and setting TZ to that value and that seemed to work. I would think that that I should be able to retrieve that value from /etc/localtime as the docs imply. Guess not. If I have to pass the time zone to the C app, then I guess that's what I'll do... =20
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