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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:46:02 -0430 (VET)
From: "rodmedina AT cantv DOT net" <rodmedina AT cantv DOT net>
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Subject: Re: The "date" command is giving wrong results.
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On 26 Apr 2012 10:03:20 Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>What's your Windows timezone set to (the actual timezone text in the
>"Date and Time" control panel?  And what is Cygwin's $TZ set to?

In Windows my Time-zone is  (GMT -04:30)Caracas

In cygwin: 
$ echo $TZ
Asia/Yakutsk

From where Cygwin gets such time-zone I can't imagine.

What is the proper solution?, to $TZ in the profile?. 
To put a link in etc/localtime does not seem to work.

Bye
RM

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