"Ken Hirsch" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:adgleq0rem@enews3.newsguy.com... > From: "John Korb" <[log in to unmask]> > > Question 2: > > Is there a C library procedure (or Intrinsic that I've missed) that I can > > call from SPLASH! (or Business Basic) that lets me pass a TZ value to it > > (ex. "EST5EDT" or "HST10"), and it returns the current hour (24 hour > > format) in the specified time zone? > > There is a localtime() function. You would have to call putenv before and > after if you want to use a different timezone. I don't know about calling > these functions from Splash. This approach might work, but will be different depending on whether you are in the MPE environment (using the C/iX Library) or the POSIX environment (using the POSIX/iX library). They handle environment variables very differently. The putenv() function is not provided in the C/iX Library. You'd want to use the MPE/iX intrinsics (HPCIGETVAR, HPCIPUTVAR, HPCIDELETEVAR) to retrieve, change, and restore the TZ session-level variable. Note that changing the value of TZ "on the fly" and having the change apply to subsequent calls to the C time functions *IS* supported. This is one of the reasons the performance of the C time functions is not what it might be. Every call to a C time function has to go check TZ in case it has changed. I can't speak for the putenv() function in the POSIX/iX library. Walter Murray Hewlett-Packard * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *