i've a need to work with the OS2 timezone parameter in the OS' system clock...
i'm not understanding a few things and haven't been able to figure out the code
path so i'm writing here to ask for some assistance... if this should be in the
user's list, please let me know and i'll move the conversation over there...
ok, so...
if i do not use the doscalls unit, the timezone parameter returns as 0 (zero)
instead of -1 when it is uninitialized... if i use the doscalls unit, i get -1
as desired... now the problem comes with how to set the timezone to the locale
the system is located in...
i know that FPC on OS2 uses EMX for some/most/all of its accesses... rummaging
through the EMX code shows that it explicitly does not allow a write to the
timezone field... the EMX code also shows another field, dstflag, which appears
to be forced to 0 (zero) but i have not been able to access this field...
additional rummaging in the EMX code shows that the timezone field in time.h is
made of two ints, tz_minuteswest and tz_dsttime but again, i don't know how to
get to them...
the thing about all of this is that work in the OS was left unfinished... there
is supposed to be an app (clock most likely) that handles setting the timezone
stuff when necessary and adjusting it when daylight saving switches on and
off... there was one (worldclock IIRC) that used to do this but it is no longer
included in eCS... peter moylan wrote a tool, TZSet, that checks and sets the OS
clock's timezone field based on the TZ environment variable but this tool has to
be executed more often than just on boot... preferably daily as soon after 0200
(or whenever one's local DST changes) as possible...
my idea was to see about writing a small clock tool to handle this like the no
longer included clock tool did...
i'm not sure what needs to be done to gain access to the dstflag or the timezone
structs and am not really sure what they are supposed to contain... any
assistance in this would be helpful... i can get some source code in modula-2
which i understand is similar to pascal but then i'm still stuck with accessing
everything thru EMX or, some how, directly into the system which is likely a bit
more dangerous for my playing...
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