strftime and timezone patch patched

Corinna Vinschen corinna@vinschen.de
Fri Aug 20 00:15:00 GMT 1999


DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> But I *don't* want cygwin_tzset to have a chance to define TZ.  I want
> the new code in tzsetwall() to do it.  If cygwin_tzset() needs to be
> called again *after* TZ is defined, fine, but the code in
> cygwin_tzset() that sets TZ from the NT information is woefully
> inadequate.  I added code from a different contributor that makes
> tzsetwall() do a more complete job of setting TZ from the NT
> information - that should be used instead, and thus cygwin_tzset needs
> to be called further down in the code (after the call to tzsetwall()
> at least).
> 
> >       * localtime.c: calls cygwin_tzset again.
> >
> > -#if 0 /* we set it more accurately in tzsetwall() */
> > +#if 1 /* we set it more accurately in tzsetwall() */

That's fine but what should I do now? I didn't know your intentions.
Is the aforementioned change to localtime.c applied to the latest
snapshot?

Regards,
Corinna



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