Re: [Chicken-users] Timezone bugs in the posix module

2013-10-03 Thread Jim Ursetto
Posix is pretty much useless for handling timezones correctly; behavior varies greatly based on the OS, and I am fairly sure the direction of the wind plays a part as well. Jim On Sep 29, 2013, at 12:28, Andy Bennett andy...@ashurst.eu.org wrote: Hi, There seem to be some

Re: [Chicken-users] Timezone bugs in the posix module

2013-10-03 Thread John Cowan
Jim Ursetto scripsit: Posix is pretty much useless for handling timezones correctly; behavior varies greatly based on the OS, and I am fairly sure the direction of the wind plays a part as well. Actually, there are only two systems in live use, IANA (formerly Olson) and Windows (excluding

[Chicken-users] Timezone bugs in the posix module

2013-09-29 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, There seem to be some inconsistencies in the timezone handling in the posix module. http://api.call-cc.org/doc/library/current-seconds - (current-seconds) procedure Returns the number of seconds since midnight, Jan. 1, 1970. - This seems to be true and it appears to be in Zulu

Re: [Chicken-users] Timezone bugs in the posix module

2013-09-29 Thread John Cowan
Andy Bennett scripsit: (seconds-string [SECONDS]) procedure Converts the local time represented in SECONDS into a string of the form Tue May 21 13:46:22 1991. SECONDS defaults to the value of (current-seconds). - ..seems to be misleading as [SECONDS] is in Zulu time (as shown