From ad34885a2b97ea4e21f9ac34c3109d02f5cb0f20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A9r=C3=B4me=20Duval?= <korli@users.berlios.de>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 15:52:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] actually set timezone in the kernel, and in the settings
 should help on bug #583, and even fix it minor change in localtime

git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@17441 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
---
 src/system/libroot/os/time.c              | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 src/system/libroot/posix/time/localtime.c |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/system/libroot/os/time.c b/src/system/libroot/os/time.c
index 46da5e97a7..0556e920e7 100644
--- a/src/system/libroot/os/time.c
+++ b/src/system/libroot/os/time.c
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
  */
 
 
+#include <FindDirectory.h>
 #include <OS.h>
 
+#include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <syslog.h>
 
@@ -62,10 +64,33 @@ set_real_time_clock(uint32 secs)
 status_t
 set_timezone(char *timezone)
 {
-	// ToDo: set_timezone()
+	char path[B_PATH_NAME_LENGTH];
+	char tzfilename[B_PATH_NAME_LENGTH];
+	bool isGMT;
+
 	status_t err;
 	struct tm *tm;
 	time_t t;
+	
+	if ((err = find_directory(B_USER_SETTINGS_DIRECTORY, -1, true, path, B_PATH_NAME_LENGTH)) != B_OK) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "can't find settings directory: %s\n", strerror(err));
+		return err;
+	}
+	strcat(path, "/timezone");
+
+	err = unlink(path);
+	if (err != B_OK) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "can't unlink: %s\n", strerror(err));
+		return err;
+	}
+	err = symlink(timezone, path);
+	if (err != B_OK) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "can't symlink: %s\n", strerror(err));
+		return err;
+	}
+	_kern_get_tzfilename(tzfilename, sizeof(tzfilename), &isGMT);
+	_kern_set_tzfilename(timezone, strlen(timezone), isGMT);
+	tzset();
 
 	time(&t);
 	tm = localtime(&t);
diff --git a/src/system/libroot/posix/time/localtime.c b/src/system/libroot/posix/time/localtime.c
index a170741569..b910f07e7c 100644
--- a/src/system/libroot/posix/time/localtime.c
+++ b/src/system/libroot/posix/time/localtime.c
@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ tzset P((void))
 
 	name = getenv("TZ");
 	if (name == NULL) {
-		_kern_get_tzfilename(tzfilename, B_PATH_NAME_LENGTH, &is_gmt);
+		_kern_get_tzfilename(tzfilename, sizeof(tzfilename), &is_gmt);
 		if (tzfilename[0] == '\0') {
 			tzsetwall();
 			return;