Subject: Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ
From: Denis Excoffier <[email-masked]>
To: Edward McGuire <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 21:50:02 +0200
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

On 2011-06-09 21:26, Edward McGuire wrote:

> cygcheck.cc:
> [snip]
> #include <sys/time.h>
> [snip]
>  time_t now;
> [snip]
>  printf ("\nCygwin Configuration Diagnostics\n");
>  time (&now);
>  printf ("Current System Time: %s\n", ctime (&now));
>
> It's using C RTL calls. And cygcheck(1) is linked with msvcrt.dll,
> not GNU, and therefore cygcheck(1) has Microsoft C RTL behavior.
> Microsoft C RTL does not support the pathname syntax extension;
> that's a GNU thing.

Exactly. That's why i suggested to use the UTC time zone (rather than
an implicit local one), which msvcrt.dll probably is able to provide
with no bug.

We also could go a little bit beyond cgf's suggestion in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-06/msg00091.html
(to use `date(1)') and remove completely the
`Current System Time:' line in `cygcheck -s'. Already,
this time indication is not given under the
other cygcheck's options.

Regards.

Denis Excoffier.

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