Re: [HACKERS] Timezone problems / HAVE_INT_TIMEZINE

Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp2.et.tudelft.nl>

From: Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp2.et.tudelft.nl>
To: Dwayne Bailey <dwayne@mika.com>
Cc: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, "Pedro J. Lobo" <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-19T15:10:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> However, what I also discovered in that these values are not set
> until after the tzset() routine is called.  Is that normal
> behavior?  Doing a grep for tzset in the PG sources revealed
> that it's only called for a few SQL commands.  Is it called
> anywhere as part of startup processing, and I'm just missing it?
> Or is the DEC implementation the only one that requires an
> explicit tzset() call before the use of these variables?

AFAIK tzset() is called automagically by all time-related libc routines 
when they detect it is not set yet (at least I think with Linux it is 
done this way. It's been a long time since I looked at that).

Maarten

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