Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 04:47:03 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I FreeBSD missing timezone var ? Message-ID: <15072.1431.696072.583197@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <114306623@toto.iv>
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Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it> types: > A friend is converting a tool from Linux to FreeBSD. Ihe is saying we miss > a var. I am not a C expert so I can't answer him. > > "Over the weekend I brought up FreeBSD on an old machine at home, and > successfully built a native FreeBSD version of Sphere. It still hasn't been > tested a bit (haven't had time), but I don't imagine it will be any > different than the linux version. In fact, there is only one place that the > code for the FreeBSD and Linux versions differ." > [...] > "The only difference is this -- in linux, there's a builtin variable called > _timezone. I couldn't find that in FreeBSD, so I created a simple function > that would determine the timezone. " > > Do we have something similar to the _timezone var ? It's not clear what he wants. It might be tzname, but using that's discouraged. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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