Subject: Re: date and TZ
From: Paul Berrevoets <[email-masked]>
To: Noel L Yap <[email-masked]>, George Thiel <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 15:15:36 -0400

Noel L Yap wrote:

> It seems that date is not affected by the setting of TZ.  Does anyone have any
> ideas what I'm doing wrong?

B20.1 doesn't support the TZ environment variable.

George Thiel wrote:

> On an NT40 machine with cygwin b20 the date command returns a "time"
> that is one hour behind the system time. How can I fix this.

B20.1 doesn't handle daylight savings time very well, especially during the months
of switchover (April/October in North America).

The good news is that recent snapshots have greatly improved date/time handling
(including the TZ environment variable).
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Regards,
Paul

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