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 Message-ID: <3CF7CE8B.4090809@cportcorp.com> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 15:27:07 -0400 From: Peter Buckley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jose@kiubo.net, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Empty timezone in date command References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I experienced this same problem with an older version of cygwin (1.3.6?), and I don't believe it has been fixed. Basically, the newlib implementation is inadequate. I was unable to compile fileutils OOTB because the timezone was not and could not be set. The answer that I received from Corinna Vinschen was "there must be a problem with the newlib implementation". Since I don't know what this means, or the time to find out, I simply gave up on compiling fileutils at all. HTH, Peter Jose Ambros-Ingerson wrote: > Hi there, > > I've recently installed Cygwin (1.3.10) on a Dell Laptop running Win2000 and > have been very pleased and impressed by the quality of this package. > > However, when trying to install a Perl module that uses > Date::Manip::TimeZone it complained that the timezone was not set. > > When trying to correct this I noticed that the "date" command does not > output the timezone. E.g., > % date > Fri May 31 15:06:56 2002 > % ^^ Here it should output EDT or similar > > Is this standard behavior in Cygnus or is my installation faulty? > Is there a way to fix this? > > Please reply to my directly as I don't subscribe to the list. > > Thanks in advance, > Jose Ambros-Ingerson > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/