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-rw-r--r-- | libguile/stime.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libguile/stime.c b/libguile/stime.c index e792eba08..6bf212210 100644 --- a/libguile/stime.c +++ b/libguile/stime.c @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +/* Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public @@ -180,6 +180,13 @@ SCM_DEFINE (scm_get_internal_run_time, "get-internal-run-time", 0, 0, 0, } #undef FUNC_NAME +/* For reference, note that current-time and gettimeofday both should be + protected against setzone/restorezone changes in another thread, since on + DOS the system time is normally kept as local time, which means TZ + affects the return from current-time and gettimeofday. Not sure if DJGPP + etc actually has concurrent multi-threading, but it seems prudent not to + make assumptions about this. */ + SCM_DEFINE (scm_current_time, "current-time", 0, 0, 0, (void), "Return the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC,\n" |