Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:53:11 +0300 Message-Id: <200106271053.NAA06390@linux.> From: "Ehud Karni" To: "Andrej Borsenkow" Subject: Re: CRON and time CC: nikolaos.trikkaliotis@serfrance.fr, cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <001a01c0fef1$f274acc0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> (message from Andrej Borsenkow on Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:14:27 +0400) Organization: Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency Reply-to: ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il References: <001a01c0fef1$f274acc0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 rmail (send-msg 1.104) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:14:27 +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > While it is better than nothing - I believe, proper implementation in Cygwin > should take timezone information from Windows. Having two different places > to configure local timezone is confusing. Well, It depends. The Israeli time zone is not functioning properly in M$ Windoze (they don't adjust to the yearly change in DST). I prefer my Cygwin time to be correct even if the Windoze time is wrong. > And is TZ format compatible between Unix and Windows? The TZ env var (in it simplest form, as described by me) is fully compatible with all UNIX system. The `zic' compiled file (localtime) is compatible with Linux and some other UNICes (the file place and name is VERY varied) but some systems (e.g. SGI IRIX) don't support it at all (SGI has complex TZ format for this). Note. The TZ is even used by some Windoze programs (I had a Netware NFS client that used it). Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Mivtach - Simon Insurance /"\ Tel: +972-3-6212-757 Fax: +972-3-6292-544 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign (USA) Fax and voice mail: 1-815-5509341 X Against HTML Mail Better Safe Than Sorry / \ mailto:ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il http://www.simonwiesel.co.il -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/