Re: [MiNT] DATE/TIME cookies

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

Hi Guido!

> I'm not familiar with reentrancy problems.  Anyway, for clarification:
> Tgettime and Tgetdate both call the XBIOS function Gettime().  They 
> are completely independent of the ROM-TOS versions of Gettime and
> Getdate.  This has been changed in 1.14.8.

I'm just thinking, could this be why TZINIT doesn't work correctly for
localtime support?  I mean, if Gettime() doesn't use TOS routines, then
maybe it doesn't read the time from the RTC, but from MiNT's own
timezone-compensated time instead?

I dunno, it's just a wild guess. ;-)

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