Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote .. > In article <[email protected]>, > Waitman Gobble <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >It seems like strptime is ignoring %z on NetBSD 6 stable? Or maybe i'm > >doing it wrong. > > mktime(3) uses the "local time" to convert struct tm * to time_t. This > means that while strptime(3) takes into account the tzoffset and sets > tm->tm_gmtoff correctly, this field is not taken into account by mktime(3) > since doing so would violate the standard. Depending on the timezone you > have set, you are going to see different results; perhaps this is why you > think that the other OS is correct :-) > > NetBSD provides extensions such as mktime_z() that control which timezone > is used on a call by call basis, instead of relying on the environment. > > christos
Thank you, I will fix my code. "After" I hit send, I realized I probably should have said it was the number I was looking for, not necessarily the correct one! -- Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA
