Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <38CEA08F.6F8C05B9@swi.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:26:56 -0500 From: Paul Berrevoets Organization: Halcyon Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kris.thielemans@csc.mrc.ac.uk CC: Gnuwin Subject: Re: DST problem ? References: <003801bf8793$3ddd0360$1d4bb392@petnt1.rpms.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please see: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1999-10/msg00132.html -- Regards, Paul Kris Thielemans wrote: > Hi, > > I discovered that right now B20.1 'date' gives the time 1 hour in the > future, similarly bash lists the date of my new files 1 hour in the future. > (Everything is fine with NT utilities, they list the correct time). > This seems to point to a problem with the DST settings. Indeed, using > 'date -R' I get a +0100 timezone info, while I am in GMT. > > I saw this problem last year on an old AIX machine as well. The reason is > that British Summer Time now 'sets in' at a different convention than it > used to. We had to manually set > TZ=GMT0BST,M3.5.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/03:00:00 > > Unfortunately, this does not help on cygwin. Where does cygwin get its > Timezone and DST info from ? > > Thanks, > > Kris -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com