[fpc-devel] Problem with Now() and time changed by ntpd

[Martin Schreiber]

On Wednesday 02 November 2011 17.13:49 Jonas Maebe wrote:

> Yes, the result slower, but it's also correct (as in "it makes sure
> that the actual local time is returned"). Just like all UTF-16 code in
> the RTL is slower than what Martin Schreiber would like, and we didn't
> change it to UCS-2 when he asked to do so for speed reasons.
> 
???
I never asked this. I asked not to use new code page aware stringtype instead 
of pre cpstrnew UnicodeString, not to use 16 bit strings in component names 
and the like and not to use non ASCII characters in RTTI and Pascal 
identifiers.
I fully agree with your argumentation about Now(). MSEgui already has a 
nowutc() function, I'll add nowlocal() which will use mselibc on Linux.

Martin