Re: [Monotone-devel] cvs_import and timezones

[Tony Tung]

On Oct 17, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On 10/2/06, Tony Tung <address@hidden> wrote:
> > It seems tzset() is never called.  Without that, the environment
> > variable TZ is never processed.  I put it in cvs_commit::cvs_commit
> > (rcs_file const & r, string const & rcs_version, file_id const &
> > ident, cvs_history & cvs) just to test it, and it behaves correctly.
>
> Uh, what??? It should not be necessary to call tzset() by hand; libc
> does it automatically on the first use of a function that needs time
> zone info, e.g. localtime().

This appears to be a platform-dependent issue.

On my Linux box, the manpage for tzset indicates that it is  
automatically called.  On the other hand, neither my OSX laptop nor  
my FreeBSD box says that it is automatically called.

Tony