Hello, I walked into a strange problem.
The variable timezone doesn't seem to work right. It should give the timedifference between GMT and the local timezone. I live in Amsterdam, so the difference should be (-)3600 seconds. But timezone tells me the difference is -1168 seconds, or about 19 minutes! Bit strange, isn't it? I use Debian Hamm, so my Linux is not that old. I can reproduce this on two Hamm-computers, installed by different people. Here's the code: // timetest.c #include <stdio.h> #include <time.h> main() { time_t t; t = time( NULL ); // dummy instruction for localtime() localtime( &t ); // sets tzname and timezone printf( "tzname=[%s,%s]\n", tzname[0], tzname[1] ); printf( "timezone=%ld\n", timezone ); } And this is the output: tzname=[CET,CEST] timezone=-1168 tzname Is correct, but timezone is not. Can anybody explain this? Is this a bug in glibc or something? Thanx, Edwin Martin. --- The world is moving so fast these days that the person who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick