On Sunday 20 February 2011 04:53:03 Michel Fortin wrote: > On 2011-02-20 00:11:11 -0500, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> said: > > Posix defines the tzset function along with a few helper items. From the > > Linux man page: > > > > extern int daylight; > > extern long timezone; > > extern char *tzname[2]; > > void tzset(void); > > > > It seems that while these _are_ Posix, not all Posix systems declare > > all of them > > (which baffles me, but that's the way it goes it seems). tzset seem > > pretty universal, and I believe that tzname is essentially universal, > > but I'm not so sure about the others. > > > > Currently, std.datetime uses tzset, tzname, and daylight on all Posix > > systems. It appears that for some reason, daylight is not declared on > > FreeBSD ( http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5616 ). What I > > want to confirm is that this is _not_ a problem on Mac OS X. > > > > As I understand it, std.datetime has been working just fine on Mac OS X, > > which would indicate that daylight _is_ declared on Mac OS X. Can anyone > > confirm this? > > If it is indeed the case, I'd like to have daylight added to druntime > > (where it belongs) for OSX. But if it's not actually on OSX, then we > > definitely don't want > > to declare it there. > > time.h has daylight in the Mac OS X 10.6 SDK: > > extern int daylight;
Okay. Thanks for the confirmation. I've now added it to druntime for Mac OS X. - Jonathan M Davis