C – How to specify the time zone in linux using C

I tried to set my system’s time zone and tried using settimeofday(), which takes the time zone structure as a parameter, but only read that the structure is now obsolete ( http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl2_settimeofday.htm) How can I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Uh, I think it’s really stupid.

I created a link.c and compiled it :

#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
    printf("This is the link \n");
}

Create a target.c and compile it:

#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
    printf("This is the target \n");
}

Then try the symbolic link function in the test program

#include <unistd.h>

void main()
{
    int garbage = symlink("/home/imandhan/pythonTests/link", "/home/imandhan/pythonTests/target");
    printf(garbage);
}

For some reason this gives me a segfault. Am I doing something wrong?

See >tzset(3) to set the time zone for the application.

For the entire system – send /etc/localtime symbolic link to the appropriate file under /usr/share/zoneinfo/.