Samba 3.0 Alpha 21 - TZ environment variable.

jra at dp.samba.org jra at dp.samba.org
Fri Jan 10 22:15:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:04:12PM -0800, P Ranjit Kumar wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Samba 3.0 Alpha21 tries to emulate the timegm() call. When it does that, it
> sets the TZ="" before it invokes the mktime() call. However, on HP-UX,
> setting TZ="" makes the timezone to be EST but what we want is GMT for
> time_t computation. This results in Samba failing to a join a domain.

Adding platform specific code (like #ifdef HPUX) isn't something we
want to move towards. Does HPUX not have timegm ? If not, can you
work out a feature test patch that fixes it for HPUX rather than
a platform specific one ?

Thanks,

	Jeremy.



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