RE: How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
>I wonder if you'd get more insight by asking the question in -hackers. >Perhaps there are some libc experts listening there. Well, I still haven't found the magic so I'll try my luck there... Thanks for the feedback. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Steele wrote: >> Did you try unsetting TZ and then calling tzset()? The man page > implies that doing so will force a reread of /etc/localtime >> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzset&sourceid=opensearch): >> >> "The tzset() function i

RE: How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
>Did you try unsetting TZ and then calling tzset()? The man page implies that doing so will force a reread of /etc/localtime >(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzset&sourceid=opensearch): > >"The tzset() function initializes time conversion information used by the library routine localtime

Re: How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Steele wrote: [...] > > > The problem is with our C applications. They continue to operate with > the old time zone, so things like timestamps in log files are not in > sync with the timestamps in the Java app log files. If we stop and > resta