pmnewcontextzone(3) — Linux manual page

PMNEWCONTEXTZONE(3)     Library Functions Manual     PMNEWCONTEXTZONE(3)

NAME

       pmNewContextZone - establish a reporting timezone based on a
       PMAPI context

C SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>

       int pmNewContextZone(void);

       cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION

       The current reporting timezone affects the timezone used by
       pmCtime(3) and pmLocaltime(3).

       If the current PMAPI context is an archive, pmNewContextZone uses
       the timezone from the archive label record to set the current
       reporting timezone.

       If the current PMAPI context corresponds to a host source of
       metrics, pmNewContextZone executes a pmFetch(3) to retrieve the
       value for the metric pmcd.timezone and uses that to set the
       current reporting timezone.

       In both cases, pmNewContextZone returns a value to identify the
       current reporting timezone that may be used in a subsequent call
       to pmUseZone(3) to restore this reporting timezone.

DIAGNOSTICS

       PM_ERR_NOCONTEXT
              the current PMAPI context is not valid

       other  a return value less than zero indicates a fatal error from
              a system call, most likely malloc(3)

SEE ALSO

       PMAPI(3), pmCtime(3), pmFetch(3), pmGetConfig(3), pmLocaltime(3),
       pmNewContext(3), pmNewZone(3), pmUseZone(3), pmWhichZone(3),
       pcp.conf(5), pcp.env(5) and environ(7).

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Pages that refer to this page: pmseries(1), pcpintro(3), __pmconverttime(3), pmctime(3), pmlocaltime(3), __pmmktime(3), pmnewzone(3), __pmparsetime(3), pmparsetimewindow(3), pmusezone(3), pmwhichzone(3)

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