std::mktime and timezone info

Question

I\'m trying to convert a time info I reveive as a UTC string to a timestamp using std::mktime in C++. My problem is that in / &

Answer 1

If you are trying to do this in a multithreaded program and don't want to deal with locking and unlocking mutexes (if you use the environment variable method you'd have to), there is a function called timegm that does this. It isn't portable, so here is the source: http://trac.rtmpd.com/browser/trunk/sources/common/src/platform/windows/timegm.cpp

int is_leap(unsigned y) {
    y += 1900;
    return (y % 4) == 0 && ((y % 100) != 0 || (y % 400) == 0);
}

time_t timegm (struct tm *tm)
{
    static const unsigned ndays[2][12] = {
        {31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31},
        {31, 29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31}
    };
    time_t res = 0;
    int i;

    for (i = 70; i < tm->tm_year; ++i)
        res += is_leap(i) ? 366 : 365;

    for (i = 0; i < tm->tm_mon; ++i)
        res += ndays[is_leap(tm->tm_year)][i];
    res += tm->tm_mday - 1;
    res *= 24;
    res += tm->tm_hour;
    res *= 60;
    res += tm->tm_min;
    res *= 60;
    res += tm->tm_sec;
    return res;
}