Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Markus Hoenicka" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15541.49155.260000.104176@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:55:31 +0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: strange delay in date? In-Reply-To: References: <15541.47460.102000.235623@gargle.gargle.HOWL> The date manpage tells you that date uses the environment variable TZ. Set this variable in your /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc to the correct value. regards, Markus Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago writes: > Thanks a lot now I know what is the problem, but I don't know how to > resolve it. I know how to do it in linux, but not in cygwin (arrgh! :) > > In linux you just had to link /etc/localtime to > /ush/share/zoneinfo/wherever_you_are and that's it, but in cygwin there's > no /usr/share/zoneinfo folder. I looked manpages but I found nothing. -- Markus Hoenicka, PhD UT Houston Medical School Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology 6431 Fannin MSB4.114 Houston, TX 77030 (713) 500-6313, -7477 (713) 500-7444 (fax) Markus.Hoenicka@uth.tmc.edu http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/