Mail Archives: cygwin/2013/03/14/05:09:24
Today, the problems with the date_and_time function were gone. I have no
clue what solved the issue. I did not install upgrades from Cygwin. I
did not recompile the program.
What I did differently, is that I have used the Cygwin Bash shell, the
Cygwin terminal and the Cygwin-X W-win server, and played around with
the options of the Cygwin Terminal. There is configuration page for Text
containing a font field, a field for font options, and a field for the
locale and character set. I have played a bit with the locale.
Afterwards, I noticed that my program now issues the correct time, even
when the option is restored to the (Default) setting it was in
originally. I assume that this playing around corrected the glitch, but
the details escape me.
Still, a month ago, I also played around with setting the locale on the
command line in the Cygwin Bash login, and that did not resolve the
issue; so "playing around with the locale" is not the entire story.
I am a bit unsatisfied that I do not know what clicked right under the
hood of Cygwin, but pragmatical enough to enjoy that the issue is gone.
Thanks for the effort!
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