Re: [Chicken-users] srfi-19 timezone problems

[Kon Lovett]

On Mar 26, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Hans Bulfone wrote:

> hi,
>
> i'm having some timezone-related problems with srfi-19:
>
> it is now:
>
> address@hidden:~$ LC_ALL=C date
> Mon Mar 26 23:07:16 CEST 2007
>
> CEST = central european summer time = UTC + 2 hours
>
> #;37> (values (current-date) (current-date (local-timezone-locale))  
> (current-date 7200))
> #,(date 1773119 16 7 21 26 3 2007 -3600 UTC #f 1 85)
> #,(date 564000000000 16 7 21 26 3 2007 0 CET #t #f #f)
> #,(date 565000000000 16 7 23 26 3 2007 7200 #f #f #f #f)
>
> 1. the nanoseconds value seems to be wrong when a timezone (offset)
>    is given to (current-date)
>
> 2. i'd expected the timezone offset in the first date to be 0 instead
>    of -3600 as the returned time is UTC
>
> 3. the timezone offset of the 2nd date should imho be 7200 and the  
> hour 23
>
> #;39> (timezone-locale-offset (local-timezone-locale))
> 0
> #;40> (timezone-locale-dst? (local-timezone-locale))
> #t
>
> this should be 7200 and #t

Please get the new locale (0.3) & srfi-19 (2.6.2) eggs.

With TZ=CEST2:00 (incorrect but enough to test)

#;2> (values (current-date) (current-date (local-timezone-locale))  
(current-date 7200))
#,(date 522000074 10 15 6 27 3 2007 0 UTC #f 2 86)
#,(date 563000000 10 15 8 27 3 2007 7200 CEST #f #f #f)
#,(date 568000000 10 15 8 27 3 2007 7200 #f #f #f #f)

Sorry you had to report this,
Kon

> this is on debian linux (etch), chicken 2.6,
> srfi-19 2.6.1 (Release 200703131612)
>
> bye,
> hans.
>
>
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