[RESENT] TIME_GetBias

[Uwe Bonnes]

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

    Rein> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:25:22 +0100, you wrote:
    >> >>>>> "Rein" == Rein Klazes <rklazes at xs4all.nl> writes:
    >> 
    Rein> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:00:20 +0100, you wrote:
    >> >> If you change the TimeGetBias() function as mentioned, synplify >>
    >> starts with the grace license.
    >> 
    >> Locally unsetting TZ was the fix I proposed years ago...

    Rein> And was it rejected? I can imagine it would break systems that
    Rein> rely on TZ and don't have something like the timezone database.

Not allpied and nobody responeded.
I wasn't too persistant than to track it harder.

    Rein> After some testing in Windows:

    Rein>    WinApi functions (I tested GetTimeZoneInformation and
    Rein> LocalFileTimeToFileTime ) are not affected by TZ.  The VC++
    Rein> runtime functions (localtime and mktime) are affected by the TZ
    Rein> value like in Unix.

    Rein> Apart of unsetting TZ, the only alternative I see would be not to
    Rein> rely on libc at all (store timezone config in registry values for
    Rein> instance).

I think that's the way to go. Winesetup should determine and set the
timezone. Who is going to implement it?
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