Re: Octave date and time services

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:53:57 -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> It appears that the localtime function on GNU/Linux operating systems
> automatically calls tzset to update the internal time zone information
> from the TZ environment variable. On Windows, it seems to be that the
> localtime function does not, but the mktime function does. That's what I
> meant by defect in your operating system.

Actually, this is because Octave uses the Gnulib mktime replacement
function in the Windows build, which does explicitly call tzset.

> I think this would be appropriate to fix in Octave, by explicitly
> calling tzset wherever it may be needed.

Please do file a bug report that all low-level time functions dealing
with local time should ensure that tzset is called.

-- 
mike

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