X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:52:32 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setting TZ may break time() in non-Cygwin programs Message-ID: <20120304115232.GC18852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F4FD8C6.5000807@t-online.de> <20120302091317.GD14404@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F513D11.2080203@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F513D11.2080203@t-online.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 On Mar 2 22:35, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Mar 1 21:15, Christian Franke wrote: > >>TZ environment variable is set by default since base-files 4.0.7. > >> > >>Unfortunately this breaks the time() calculation for all non-Cygwin > >>programs run from Cygwin if Microsoft C runtime (mscrt*.dll) is > >>used. MS CRT evaluates TZ but supports only a very old syntax > >>subset. IIRC this is the case since VS1.x (DOS/Win16) and did not > >>change since at least VS10. > >I'm sorry, but I really don't care enough. If that's a problem, then > >just unset TZ in your environment before calling non-Cygwin tools, no? > > Of course, after tracking down the problem to the new TZ it is now > easy to unset it :-) > > No problem in scripts, but inconvenient and error prone for interactive use. > > > >But, as usual, PTC. > > OK, ... > > > > >Simple: Unset TZ for Win32 programs run from Cygwin. > > > >More flexible: Set (unset) TZ=CYGWIN_WINENV_TZ if this variable is > >set (to empty). Otherwise keep TZ as is. > > > > would a patch for any of the above have a chance to get accepted? If it's not getting too complicated, yes. However, the second idea I don't understand. Can you explain this differently? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple