How to get timezone in RTEMS?

[Eric Norum]

OUTWATER wrote:
> 
> Hello All:
> 
> I'm trying to get TCL (8.4a) ported to RTEMS and everything compiles except some
> TCL code which tries to determine timezone.
> 
> FYI, the affected files are:
> ./tcl8.4a1/generic/tclClock.c
> 
> and
> /tcl8.4a1/generic/tclUnixTime.c.  "
> 
> timezone" is undeclared and is causing a compile error in both files.
> 
> TCL is configured and compiled using the attached Makefile.rtems-tcl.
> 
> The makefile is placed in ./tcl8.4a1/unix and run using make -f.
> 
> It appears that the code is configured to fallback to a last-ditch method of
> determining timezone and that this method is somehow broken.
> 
> I'm definitely not an expert in Unix time functions (I AM an expert in embedded
> hardware design, though :) ).
> 
> I can hack the two affected source files by declaring timezone to make things
> compile, but this seems inelegant.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to attack this and get things working
> properly ?
> 

I don't have tcl8.4, but for tcl8.3 you could avoid the timezone
variable by definining USE_DELTA_FOR_TZ.


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