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Time function question

#1089
From: Jenny Doll
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 07:00
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Maybe this is a generic Unix programming question, but...
Is there any way to find out whether or not your localtime is in 
daylight savings time (DST) or not?  I have a time function that works
when I'm using a non-DST (e.g. GMT-0800), however when I change my 
time zone to DST (e.g. PST), it breaks.  If only I could tell.  I 
thought the following would work:

timePtr = localtime(&clock);
isDST = timePtr->tm_isdst;

but isDST is *always* 0, no matter where I set the clock.  Any ideas?

Thanks, ...Michael Brill
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