Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/10/13:44:38
On Sat, 10 May 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 11:25:48AM +0200, news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 02:51:35AM -0700, jklcom wrote:
> > >> How do set the time in cygwin to sync up with windows system time?
> > >
> > > Uelp? Cygwin time *is* Windows time.
> >
> > Actually, no, its not (necessarily), sorry Corinna. Of course, it depends on
> > $TZ, so if that environment variable is incorrectly set then the time will be
> > 'wrong'. Setting $TZ correctly, or not setting it at all, fixes this. (What
> > happens to programs which expect TZ if it is not explicitly set?)
>
> Sic. This has nothing to do with the clock...
>
> > $ export TZ=WEDT
> >
> > $ date
> > Sat May 10 09:58:02 GMT 2003
> >
> > (so presumably WEDT is not a correct setting for TZ, though that's kind of
> > confusing given the first result in this sequence)
>
> Try export TZ="WEST-1WEDT-2,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3"
> Corinna
Gary, FYI, this format is described in detail on the "tzset" manpage.
Igor
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