I'm a developer on the log4cxx project
(http://logging.apache.org/log4cxx) and am looking for suggestions to
deal with one of our outstanding issues. log4j allows the end user to
specify that the times written to the logs be formatted in an arbitrary
timezone, for example, the applications default time zone might be US
Central, but the times in the logs to be written as US Eastern. The
current approach is to set the TZ environment variable, convert the
time and set the TZ environment variable back. Unfortunately, this has
the possibility to introduce side effects to the main application and
introduces threading issues.
I've reviewed the time routines in APR and they only seem to support
the concept of a local time and GMT. Do you have any suggestions on
how to support formatting to an arbitary timezone in a somewhat
portable manner?
