Re: [Evolution] Bogus time

[Jeremy Prior <jez netcraft com>]

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 13:32, Not Zed wrote:
> We need to do it because we use the absolute time (with no timezone
> offset), and calculate the offset based on the timezone, which doesn't
> include the dst info.  *however* the code path is different for BSD vs
> linux from what I can tell, and its probably using a value that isn't
> equivalent.
>
> What does 'man localtime' have to say about the tm_gmtoff field of 
> struct tm?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=asctime&sektion=3&apropos=0&manpath=freebsd

           long tm_gmtoff; /* offset from UTC in seconds */

It also notes that "The tm_isdst and tm_gmtoff members are forced to
zero by timegm()."

jez
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