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Re: Re: wallclock timezone
- From: Bob Koninckx <bob dot koninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
- To: Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>,eCos Disuss <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 19:59:34 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: wallclock timezone
- Organization: KULeuven
- References: <20031005135517.GN8466@lunn.ch> <3F805AE1.8060109@eCosCentric.com>
- Reply-to: bob dot koninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 19:54, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Hi Folks
> >
> > There does not appear to be any documentation about wallclocks. What
> > timezone should it return the time in? I assume its UTC? The code in
> > libc will then take care of any time zone offsets?
It doesn't
Bob
> >
> > Is this correct?
>
> Correct. Although I'm not sure it distinguishes between UTC and GMT well
> enough when it comes to DST offsets.
>
> Jifl
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