Am 28.10.2013 08:49, schrieb David Taylor:
On 27/10/2013 16:40, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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It is a known problem.
Doing this 100% correctly involves re-reading the timezone file at every
call of Now() or Date().
Clearly, this is a huge performance impact, severely skewing the time
information.
So this is not done.
The "unix" unit contains
Procedure ReReadLocalTime;
which will re-initialize the necessary variables. You can call this
routine at regular intervals as you see fit.
In your case, you may want to insert a call to this after every clock
update, which would be once a second.
Michael.
Thanks, Michael, that's most helpful, I can call it once an hour which
will be more than enough.
However, it seems that in the version I have for the Raspberry Pi
(Laz: 1.0.6 FPC: 2.6.0) the "Unix" unit does not contain this
procedure. I did find the source code for it, but I don't want to
have to ask folk who might want to compile the clock program to have
to also copy many lines of code from the Unix unit. (Oh, and I tried
both "unix" and "Unix" - both seemed to work.)
Am I missing something?
It's only in trunk for now.
@Marco: It's likely a good candidate to merge to 2.6.3 (it's revision
19569).
Regards,
Sven
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