[fpc-devel] NowUTC in the RTL

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>>> Crossplatform functions which are only stubs on some platforms are useless
>>> and should not be added.
>>
>> I don't see the problem.
>> As far as I can see, NowUTC should simply return the kernel time and not perform
>> the shift to local time (which Now() should do).
>
> IIRC the discussion stated that maintaining timezones in the kernel on linux
> is deprecated?

what does that have to do with the issue ?

The linux kernel returns UTC time, it always has. Now() converts this to local time.
(as does libc). All NowUTC needs to do is return the kernel time.

Michael.