[fpc-pascal] Local Time

[Jonas Maebe]

On 21 Feb 2008, at 09:15, Carsten Bager wrote:

> My problem is that I get UTC time with the 220 compiler on the Arm
> platform, when using gettime, now ---.
> If i compile my program "lt" (local time) with the 220 compiler on  
> Linux 386
> it works as I expects.
> If I compile it to an Arm Linux it fails but if I use the 204  
> compiler it works.

Under Linux, FPC tries to read the timezone info from (in this order)

/etc/timezone
/etc/localtime
/usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime

I guess the Linux on your Arm device stores it in yet another place  
(or one of these files exist but does not contain the correct time  
zone info).


Jonas