X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <811AA35F-E300-46E5-9FE3-EE7D5E58194B@free.fr> From: Denis Excoffier To: Edward McGuire In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 21:50:02 +0200 References: <20110609094631.56364lzi64m7t4d3@messagerie.si.c-s.fr> <4DF10C13.3040208@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 2011-06-09 21:26, Edward McGuire wrote: > cygcheck.cc: > [snip] > #include > [snip] > time_t now; > [snip] > printf ("\nCygwin Configuration Diagnostics\n"); > time (&now); > printf ("Current System Time: %s\n", ctime (&now)); > > It's using C RTL calls. And cygcheck(1) is linked with msvcrt.dll, > not GNU, and therefore cygcheck(1) has Microsoft C RTL behavior. > Microsoft C RTL does not support the pathname syntax extension; > that's a GNU thing. Exactly. That's why i suggested to use the UTC time zone (rather than an implicit local one), which msvcrt.dll probably is able to provide with no bug. We also could go a little bit beyond cgf's suggestion in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-06/msg00091.html (to use `date(1)') and remove completely the `Current System Time:' line in `cygcheck -s'. Already, this time indication is not given under the other cygcheck's options. Regards. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple