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

The tm structure used by mktime has a timezone field.
What happens if you put 'UTC' into the timzone field?

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/glibc/libc_435.html