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Date: | Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:35:13 +0100 |
From: | Christian Franke <Christian DOT Franke AT t-online DOT de> |
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Subject: | Re: Setting TZ may break time() in non-Cygwin programs |
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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 1 21:15, Christian Franke wrote: >> TZ environment variable is set by default since base-files 4.0.7. >> >> Unfortunately this breaks the time() calculation for all non-Cygwin >> programs run from Cygwin if Microsoft C runtime (mscrt*.dll) is >> used. MS CRT evaluates TZ but supports only a very old syntax >> subset. IIRC this is the case since VS1.x (DOS/Win16) and did not >> change since at least VS10. > I'm sorry, but I really don't care enough. If that's a problem, then > just unset TZ in your environment before calling non-Cygwin tools, no? Of course, after tracking down the problem to the new TZ it is now easy to unset it :-) No problem in scripts, but inconvenient and error prone for interactive use. > But, as usual, PTC. OK, ... > > Simple: Unset TZ for Win32 programs run from Cygwin. > > More flexible: Set (unset) TZ=CYGWIN_WINENV_TZ if this variable is set > (to empty). Otherwise keep TZ as is. > would a patch for any of the above have a chance to get accepted? Christian -- 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
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