Trying to make old gcc on Jenkins happy.

[simgear.git] / simgear / timing / lowleveltime.cxx

diff --git a/simgear/timing/lowleveltime.cxx b/simgear/timing/lowleveltime.cxx
index 9d20655d6361ab94904086533a42b0aecff3b465..155b160a5955e8df23de8c2738e7cfde2fedef3b 100644 (file)
--- a/simgear/timing/lowleveltime.cxx
+++ b/simgear/timing/lowleveltime.cxx
@@ -1134,3 +1134,24 @@ char *tzstring (const char* string)
 
   return strncpy (p, string, needed);
 }
+
+time_t sgGMTime()
+{
+    // this was created to fix:
+    // https://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=1207
+    // however applying the code on Unix causes bug:
+    // https://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=1301
+    // One solution would be to deinfe our own 'timegm' as suggested here:
+    // http://linux.die.net/man/3/timegm
+    // but for the moment we'll assume time(0) on Unix is UTC, and hence we
+    // return it directly.
+    
+       time_t now_sec = time(0);
+#if defined(SG_WINDOWS)
+    struct tm now;
+       now = *gmtime(&now_sec);
+    return mktime(&now);
+#else
+       return now_sec;
+#endif
+}