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 From: Mark Himsley To: David Starks-Browning Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Time-setting Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:27:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <036d01c148c7$0c9a86f0$01000001@lifelesswks> <3BB5BCE2.6387.332954D@localhost> <4200-Sat29Sep2001121006+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4200-Sat29Sep2001121006+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:10:05 +0100 you wrote: >I'd like to understand why date needs TZ for you and not me, before >trying to explain it in the FAQ. For me, on Win2K and WinNT, the TZ env variable seems to be created out of thin-air within Cygwin bash. In cmd.exe `echo %TZ%` does not elicit a result but under Cygwin bash `echo $TZ` does. I *assumed* that it was created for me by Cygwin (or bash or something) because I have my computer set with the BIOS clock on GMT and time zone settings in the Date/Time control panel set to GMT + auto daylight saving. -- Mark Himsley In Acton -- 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/