Re: gettimeofday does noet return UTC offset

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

L. Maartens wrote:
> However, with the UTC sysval at +01:00, the miutes west of Greenwich still
> gives returns zero in the timezone structure.
>
> I think that this must be either a bug, or more likely, that I expect it the
> return something that is not returned when not called from the Qshell or
> Pase environment.

And I wrote:
> > microseconds since January 1, 1970.  It also (on some architectures)
> > fills out a structure detailing the timezone, specifically the minutes
> > west of Greenwich.  Is this what you are referring to?

Notice "on some architectures".  Most likely is that the timezone 
structure is not filled out on the iSeries platform.  If so, this is not 
a bug.  It isn't filled out on linux either (and I don't think it is on 
*BSD).  gettimeofday() is designed to tell what time the software clock 
thinks it is, not necessarily what timezone you are in.  The time value 
in struct *tv is already adjusted for your timezone.  Do you want to 
know what time it is or do you want to know what timezone you are in?

James Rich

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