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Date:	Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:26:56 -0500
From:	Paul Berrevoets <paul AT swi DOT com>
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To:	kris DOT thielemans AT csc DOT mrc DOT ac DOT uk
CC:	Gnuwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	Re: DST problem ?
References:	<003801bf8793$3ddd0360$1d4bb392 AT petnt1 DOT rpms DOT ac DOT uk>

Please see:
 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1999-10/msg00132.html
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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


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