X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <23538459.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 04:10:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Girod To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Debugging a time zone problem In-Reply-To: <23537290.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <498C685C.4040901@cornell.edu> <23537290.post@talk.nabble.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Marc Girod wrote: > > Looking at the sources, the most suspicious place given your description, > seems to be msdos.c, around lines 4453-4494... > and even more so with lines 4450-4452: /* Time zone determined from country code. To make this possible, the country code may not span more than one time zone. In other words, in the USA, you lose. */ There are 4 zones in the US? Countries with several timezones are the large ones: Russia, China, India, Canada, Brazil,... Unfortunately, there are also populated (with users, I mean)... For them, a different mechanism seems to be needed. Er... why does gdb affect? Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Debugging-a-time-zone-problem-tp21876155p23538459.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/