[cs631apue] About test env TZ

[Elliot Wasem]

Hey Yuxi,

Quite frankly I forget. I suggest you write yourself a toy program really
quick and test it out!

Best,
Elliot

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 9:09 AM Yuxi Wang <ywang286 at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Hi Elliot,
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> You mean set TZ first and add a line at the beginning of the program like
> tzset() and then test it?
>
> Sounds reasonable.
>
> I checked the manual it doesn’t tell me whether ctime() uses TZ or not.
> Could you tell me about that?
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> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
> Yuxi Wang
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> Hey Yuxi,
>
> Check out "man 7 environ" (or is it man 7 environment?) for the format of
> the TZ variable.
>
> I think I remember using tzset() (I forget if that's man 2 or man 3) to
> set the time zone for the program.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Elliot
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 8:57 AM Yuxi Wang <ywang286 at stevens.edu> wrote:
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>> Hello professor,
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>> Could you tell me how to test my program with TZ?
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>> Just set the env using export TZ=GMT?
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>> Actually I use ctime(3) to get the time. Does it use TZ inside of it?
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>> Thank you
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>> Yuxi Wang
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