On 31/07/2012, at 1:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 30/07/12 10:36, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: >> On Sunday 29 July 2012 22:30:32 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> [...] I'm looking for /etc/timezone and >>> /etc/localtime. In case the latter is a symlink, it's possible to get >>> the timezone from the path string. >> >> You are right of course - I should remember to read my own code properly. >> However, /etc/localtime is usually not a symlink. If you are missing >> /etc/timezone, you can also try /usr/local/etc/timezone (that's the default >> location where the timezone library installs itself on a system that does not >> have it per default). > > I wonder if it's possible to deduce the timezone from the system's UTC > offset? The offset can be determined through gmtime() and localtime(), > both in C89 so nothing platform-specific here:
If it were that easy, we wouldn't need the extensive tz database. :) _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
