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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2017-04-30 11:38:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2017-04-30 19:26:36 +0200 |
| commit | 6736a8833373cc6302e57c4b4ae6ff05a15a27a6 (patch) | |
| tree | aa8478836fee1c365746117b550504a55db72359 /doc/pastposix-functions | |
| parent | dc2bc508515352dfff17d350973940465688948d (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-6736a8833373cc6302e57c4b4ae6ff05a15a27a6.tar.gz | |
Document the problem with the Cygwin environment variable TZ.
* doc/posix-functions/tzset.texi: Add note about TZ.
* doc/posix-functions/ctime.texi: Likewise.
* doc/posix-functions/localtime.texi: Likewise.
* doc/posix-functions/mktime.texi: Likewise.
* doc/posix-functions/strftime.texi: Likewise.
* doc/posix-functions/wcsftime.texi: Likewise.
* doc/pastposix-functions/ftime.texi: Likewise.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pastposix-functions/ftime.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pastposix-functions/ftime.texi b/doc/pastposix-functions/ftime.texi index 0fcaed1ecc..582a088163 100644 --- a/doc/pastposix-functions/ftime.texi +++ b/doc/pastposix-functions/ftime.texi @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: This function is missing on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Solaris 2.4. @item +On native Windows platforms (mingw, MSVC), this function works incorrectly +when the environment variable @code{TZ} has been set by Cygwin. +@item This function is marked as ``legacy'' in POSIX. Better use @code{gettimeofday} or @code{clock_gettime} instead, and use @code{ftime} only as a fallback for portability to Windows platforms. |