In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: > Also, how cheap is this on Windows? Presumably they will also have to > deal with potential system services running while updates fix daylight > saving time changes? If they don't use shared memory for this, I'd > wager that it's just as slow as libc localtime.
I doubt Windows has a _file_ based concept of timezone. > I don't think the definition of "acceptable" for the RTL should be "may > be wrong in corner cases, as long as it's fast". I'm sure you'd agree. As Michael explained there are multiple usecases for gettime like functionality. And I agree with him (if only because my business app would break horribly. Worse, if my business app ran on Linux, rescanning the timezone files in a thread that called gettime would probably violate realtime constraints and our quality assurance app would eject valid products because of unexpected latency due to unforseen harddisk access. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
