Failing to acquire timezone information

[walksanatora]

so when I do UtcOffset::current_local_offset() it errors out with IndeterminateOffset but yet if I look at timedatectl it looks llike it should work just fine

               Local time: Wed 2023-06-28 22:28:49 PDT
           Universal time: Thu 2023-06-29 05:28:49 UTC
                 RTC time: Wed 2023-06-28 22:28:49
                Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
System clock synchronized: no
              NTP service: inactive
          RTC in local TZ: yes

Warning: The system is configured to read the RTC time in the local time zone.
         This mode cannot be fully supported. It will create various problems
         with time zone changes and daylight saving time adjustments. The RTC
         time is never updated, it relies on external facilities to maintain it.
         If at all possible, use RTC in UTC by calling
         'timedatectl set-local-rtc 0'.

using time 0.3.22 in my project

[jhpratt]

What is your operating system?

[walksanatora]

Arch Linux running kernel 6.3.8-arch1-1

[jhpratt]

Is the process multi-threaded at the time of invocation?

[walksanatora]

it is within a async main from tokio so I would assume so (although it is only one thread since all futures are created then awaited)

[jhpratt]

If there are multiple threads running, which is more than likely when using tokio, then the call will fail on any Linux operating system (and most Unix-based operating systems). This is to guarantee that the program does not segfault.

[walksanatora]

is there any way to get the offset in a multi-threaded enviroment and then pass that into time for it to use

[jhpratt]

Any way to do that is unsound.