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Re: Strange problem with GMT on Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Robinson)
Wed May 10 13:17:26 1995
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 12:53:00 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: drtr1@cam.ac.uk
From: drtr1@cam.ac.uk (David Robinson)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
>I have a strange problem on Solaris:
Which version?
>The gmtime() function on Solaris seems to return the wrong value. It is one
>hour ahead of GMT which means that all date header values in a HTTP request
>or response is one hour ahead of GMT. This is for example the case on our
>www.w3.org servers which certainly confuses a lot of caches!
>
>It is simple to test:
>
> time_t calendar = time(NULL);
> struct tm *gmt = gmtime(&calendar);
> strftime(buf, 40, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT", gmt);
>
>Has anybody else heard of this problem?
I have seen a similar problem under Solaris 2.3; gmtime would include the
hour for daylight saving time.
That problem does not exist under Solaris 2.4.
David Robinson.
