LibTimeZone: Add an API to retrieve the system's current time zone

This is a wrapper API around the POSIX tzset / tzname information. It is to help ensure that tzset is invoked before accessing tzname.
akimdi · Jan 12, 2022 · 8a4ac9c · 8a4ac9c
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diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibTimeZone/TimeZone.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibTimeZone/TimeZone.cpp
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <LibTimeZone/TimeZone.h>
+#include <time.h>
 
 namespace TimeZone {
 
@@ -19,6 +20,17 @@ enum class TimeZone : u16 {
 };
 #endif
 
+StringView current_time_zone()
+{
+ static bool initialized_time_zone = false;
+ if (!initialized_time_zone) {
+ initialized_time_zone = true;
+ tzset();
+ }
+
+ return tzname[0];
+}
+
 Optional<TimeZone> __attribute__((weak)) time_zone_from_string([[maybe_unused]] StringView time_zone)
 {
 #if !ENABLE_TIME_ZONE_DATA

diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibTimeZone/TimeZone.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibTimeZone/TimeZone.h
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 
 namespace TimeZone {
 
+StringView current_time_zone();
+
 Optional<TimeZone> time_zone_from_string(StringView time_zone);
 StringView time_zone_to_string(TimeZone time_zone);
 Optional<StringView> canonicalize_time_zone(StringView time_zone);