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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:58:27 +0100
From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
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Cc: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: tzset in libc
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> On Wed, Mar 3, 1999, Marc Olzheim put this into my mailbox:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was wondering why it was that each time you call localtime() or strftime(),
> > tzset() is called also. Isn't it so that it only has to be called once
> > per process and then be regearded as already set ?
> 
>    No.  If you reset your time zone while a program is
> running, what then?

Then you call tzset() :-)

We used to run a libc like that here and I kind of got used to it.

Marc


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