Blah. I spent several hours last night trying to come up with a way to
get libical to know "the timezone this computer is currently in" but could
not come up with anything. I would appreciate any help anyone could
offer. This would be a nice little bit of code that doesn't require
in-depth C
Hmm.. actually, that database is supposed to be standard on Linux and
other unixy operating systems.
It is ... but I don't know of any standard way to get the operating system
to tell you your timezone in Olsen database format. I know that in Red
Hat I can look in /etc/sysconfig/clock and grab the TZID line. But
obviously that won't work anywhere else.
I say use TZ... if someone *isn't* using it, at least you can point to
something that says, 'Hey, that's the standard!'.
Prompt them during install. If TZ is set, give the option of using that,
or entering your own.
Hm, I don't have TZ set.
I suppose you could follow the /etc/localtime symlink and see where it
leads -- assuming it IS a symlink...
The problem is finding a standard way to do this.
Peter's suggestion of pointing this sort of thing out in the setup script
is a pretty good one, since apparently the TZ environment variable
standard is a relatively new one.
Oh yes, it only dates back to 4.3BSD. A decade is relatively new...
http://bugzilla.citadel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184
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+ Bug#: 184
+ Product: Citadel/UX
+ Version: 5.7x
+ Platform: PC
+ OS/Version: Linux
+ Status: NEW
+ Resolution:
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