Re: [HACKERS] Date/time on glibc2 linux

"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> If the tm structure contains the timezone info (as it claims to on my
> RH5.1 glibc2 system) then for testing try to #undef HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE in
> config.h and see how it goes. If I have a chance tomorrow I'll try doing
> the same at work. I'm guessing that our configure tests look for the
> global variable version first, and that the glibc2 passes that test even
> though the other mechanism is the right one.

Yes, the autoconf test just checks for a global variable "timezone"
declared in <time.h>. It'd probably be better to reverse the test to
check for the timezone fields in a struct tm. I don't much care for
the name of the configuration symbol either ... maybe change it to
HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TZ_FIELDS ?

regards, tom lane