Changes to force TZ to UTC #75

class_parser.py

@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
 DEBUG = 0
 
 # The pytsk3 version.
-VERSION = "20210327"
+VERSION = "20210419"
 
 # These functions are used to manage library memory.
 FREE = "aff4_free"

dpkg/changelog

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-pytsk3 (20210327-1) unstable; urgency=low
+pytsk3 (20210419-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Auto-generated
 
- -- Joachim Metz <[email protected]>  Sat, 27 Mar 2021 13:12:25 -0100
+ -- Joachim Metz <[email protected]>  Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:05:49 -0100

tsk3.cpp

@@ -14,14 +14,19 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
+
 #include "tsk3.h"
 
+#include <time.h>
+
 #if defined( TSK_MULTITHREAD_LIB )
+
 extern "C" {
 extern void tsk_init_lock(tsk_lock_t * lock);
 extern void tsk_deinit_lock(tsk_lock_t * lock);
 }
-#endif
+
+#endif /* defined( TSK_MULTITHREAD_LIB ) */
 
 /* Prototypes for IMG_INFO hooks
  * Note that IMG_INFO_read is called by the SleuthKit the Img_Info_read
@@ -690,6 +695,20 @@ VIRTUAL(Volume_Info, Object) {
 
 
 void tsk_init() {
+
+  // libtsk uses mktime and localtime that rely on the TZ environment variable
+  // however that leads to inconsistent behavior with different TZ values.
+  // Hence that we force TZ to be UTC, when possible.
+#if defined( _MSC_VER )
+  _putenv_s("TZ", "UTC");
+  _tzset();
+
+  // Some installations of MinGW do not support setenv
+#elif !defined( __MINGW32__ )
+  setenv("TZ", "UTC", 1);
+  tzset();
+#endif
+
   //tsk_verbose++;
   Img_Info_init((Object)&__Img_Info);
   FS_Info_init((Object)&__FS_Info);

version.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-20210327
+20210419