From:	DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: srand() or time()
Date:	Thu, 27 May 1999 02:37:43 GMT
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On Wed, 26 May 1999 13:10:19 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>`time' cannot be as simple as you seem to think.  For starters, it needs 
>to support the different time zones, so it needs at least to look at the 
>environment variable TZ.  DJGPP's version does much more than that, and 
>uses a disk-based database for all the different timezone rules.

And, if that database cannot be found, an error will be generated by a
call to open one of the files in it. I haven't checked, but if the
time function used the standard fopen() etc or variants then errno may
be changed. Makes sense.

Davin.
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