On 6/22/2011 9:15 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for mTCP!
>
> I experimented with it yesterday for the first time, and it took
> me just 15 minutes to get started, in spite of my near complete
> lack of internet experience (except of course web browsers and
> email clients).
>
> This also means that your manuals are well written, so my
> compliments for that too.
>
> Because I am now obsessed with idling the CPU by means of
> FD-APM, I tried your FTP with the DPAKBD program. It worked
> well, and CPU idle time was above 90%.
>
> And, last but not least ... the bug report!
>
> This is about SNTP. My Time Zone variable is set to UTC+3
> (Brazil). The program did correctly set my clock to 3 hours
> behind Universal Time Coordinated, but on-screen it said "UTC"
> instead of "UTC+3":
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> mTCP SNTP Client by M Brutman (mbbrut...@yahoo.com) (C)opyright 2009-2011
> Version: May 30 2011
>
> Resolving pool.ntp.org, press [ESC] to abort.
> NTP server ip address is: 187.49.33.15, resolved in 0.00 seconds
>
> Your selected timezone is: UTC
>
> Current system time is: 2011-06-22 10:09:54
> (etc.)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Regards,
>
> Marcos
Marcos,
I am glad that you found the documentation usable - I spend a lot of
time on the documentation, so it is good to know that it is time well spent.
SNTP uses Open Watcom to do the time zone calculations. According to
the Open Watcom documentation, the TZ environment variable follows this
format:
std_offset_dst_offset_,_rule (underscores are added for readability)
Std and dst are time zone designations. The +3 that you are adding is
an offset. So when Open Watcom parses the environment variable is sets
your time zone as UTC and the offset as +3 hours from coordinated
universal time. Timezone is what SNTP is printing out.
I think this is a matter of "working as designed." I might add some
more output to make it more clear, but it probably is not a bug. (If
you use the verbose flag on the program it will tell you the timezone
offset in seconds explicitly.)
Regards,
Mike
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