time zone on linux

[kilaru <kilaru@netcontinuum.com>]

Hi All


I am writing a logger daemon. I need to print the time stamp while printing 
the log message. I have to actually print the human readable date and time 
zone. 

Now my doubt is how will I know if root changes timezone while my daemon is 
running?( I do not want to kill and restart the daemon).

I wnet through man pages of localtime, asctime etc....  And did some 
experiments on those class of functions. None of those get updated with the 
timezone.

I observed that apache httpd gets the new time zone whenever it changes.

If any body knows how to do it please tell me.

Thanks in advance.


Bye
Kilaru