peter burden wrote:

Per Jessen wrote:

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I should explain what I'm really doing here: I sscanf() the timestamp into a 'tm' struct, and I correct the year and month such that they comply with what 'tm' expects. Then I convert to a number of seconds since the epoch using mktime() and subtracting the number of seconds as specified in the offset part of the timestamp - e.g. +0200 becomes -7200 seconds. But my number of seconds always ends up being off by 3600 seconds, i.e. 3600 seconds less than it should be.

I wonder if this is something to do with daylight saving times settings. Your +0200 log file offset may be composed of +1 hour for your Central European time zone and +1 hour for local daylight saving time.

Yep, that is correct.

If, when you "hand crafted" the struct tm maybe you didn't set the tm_idst field, mktime() would apply a further 1 hour correction since daylight saving time is in force locally - see tzset(3).

True, I haven't set isdst - problem is, I would much prefer not having to find out if we've DST or not ... /Per Jessen, Zurich

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/Per Jessen, Zürich