Re: time offsets

[Christian Hopp]

On 13 Aug 2002, Rory Toma wrote:

> In util.c I noticed that following code:
>
> <   timezone_h= -(timezone/3600)+daylight;
> <   timezone_m= abs(timezone/60)%60;
>
> Now, this wouldn't compile out of the box on FreeBSD, so I looked at
> some man pages.

I can only test on Linux and Solaris.  )-:

> Isn't something like:
>
> >   tm_now = localtime(&now);
> >
> >   timezone_h = -(tm_now->tm_gmtoff/3600);
> >   timezone_m = abs(tm_now->tm_gmtoff/60)%60;
>
> more portable?
Yep!

C.Hopp


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