Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:38:41 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Cygwin Users Subject: Re: which TZ timezones does date command recognize? Message-ID: <20010423213841.C15499@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin Users References: <3AE46493.888163D2@freeler.nl> <3AE46EE2.CF1BCFC6@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AE46EE2.CF1BCFC6@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:05:22PM -0400 On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:05:22PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: > Teun Burgers wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > date displays the time with a 2 hour offset on my system. > > So I should set my TZ environment variable, > > as adviced in an older e-mail > > > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-01/msg00463.html > > > > The example there says export TZ=EST5EDT. > > > > This does indeed work as expected. However > > I am in MET (Amsterdam), but TZ=MET does not > > work. How can I found out which timezones > > date recognizes? > > > > By doing some research using Google.com I found that TZ=MET-1DST works. Just for the records, the correct TZ string for the middle/central european timezone is TZ=CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/03:00:00 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple