[fpc-pascal] Local Time

[Carsten Bager]

> 
> 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).

As I wrote in my first mail. The same program compiled with the 204 
compiler works on the same Arm 9 platform.
So the program compiled with the 204 compiler finds the "/etc/localtime" file 
and reads it.

Carsten