Re: timezone macro for autoconf?

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From: Russ Allbery
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:00

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In gnu.utils.help, Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> The Single Unix Standard, v2, defines timezone as
>   extern int timezone;

> So does Linux.  BSD, though, defines it as
>   char *timezone(int zone, int dst);

> Does anyone have a good autoconf macro for figuring out
> how to get at the timezone offset (the extern int) portably?

No, but I need to write one for INN as well.  On a BSD system, you
generally want to get the timezone offset from the tm_gmtoff member of
struct tm; SysV doesn't have a tm_gmtoff member.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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