Hello,
I walked into a strange problem.
The variable timezone doesn't seem to work right. It should give
the timedifference between GMT and the local timezone.
I live in Amsterdam, so the difference should be (-)3600 seconds.
But timezone tells me the difference is -1168 seconds, or about
19 minutes! Bit strange, isn't it?
I use Debian Hamm, so my Linux is not that old. I can reproduce this
on two Hamm-computers, installed by different people.
Here's the code:
// timetest.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
main() {
time_t t;
t = time( NULL ); // dummy instruction for localtime()
localtime( &t ); // sets tzname and timezone
printf( "tzname=[%s,%s]\n", tzname[0], tzname[1] );
printf( "timezone=%ld\n", timezone );
}
And this is the output:
tzname=[CET,CEST]
timezone=-1168
tzname Is correct, but timezone is not.
Can anybody explain this? Is this a bug in glibc or something?
Thanx,
Edwin Martin.
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