Set TZ environment variable when not set

Uwe Bonnes bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
Thu Apr 17 02:57:43 CDT 2003


>>>>> "Rein" == Rein Klazes <rklazes at xs4all.nl> writes:

    Rein> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:05:28 +0200, you wrote:
    >> Changelog: memory/environ.c: build_environment Set the TZ value to
    >> GMT0, if TZ is not set
    >> 
    >> Synplify.exe from the Quicklogic FPGA suite refused to work with the
    >> demo license. Setting TZ to any value made it work. GMT0 should be a
    >> good approach.
    >> 
    >> Awaiting the "flame war" about noise level for that silent change :-)

    Rein> Uwe,

    Rein> Some programs, like Agent email/news client that I use, check the
    Rein> existence of TZ before attempting other timezone API call's.

    Rein> With your patch Agent displays all times in UTC, which is not
    Rein> making me happy. A correct patch should take care of the local
    Rein> timezone and daylight saving.

Okay, I see. 
But the qllink.dll/synplify.exe behaviour shows we have some TZ environement
variable dependancy in the wine time handling code. Any help to fix this is
welcome.

Bye
-- 
Uwe Bonnes                bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt
--------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------



More information about the wine-devel mailing list