I should have said "struct timezone' instead of 'struct tz' (ain't no
such animal). But the first argument is a struct timeval *, which has
no reference to a timezone.
Anyway - pointless to argue - I'll make the changes. NULL should work:
the man page says this:
If either tv or tz is null, the corresponding structure is not set
cheers
andrew
Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>I've noticed an inconsistency in calls to gettimeofday(): sometimes it
>>is passed a struct tz (which is ignored) as the second argument, and
>>sometimes NULL as the second argument. My understanding is that the
>>second argument is basically useless anyway - on my Linux box man
>>gettimeofday says this:
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>You are confusing the second argument with something else (a field in
>the first argument struct). However, if we're assuming that NULL works
>in some places, we may as well use it everywhere that it makes sense.
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> regards, tom lane
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