X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F57B610.5030702@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:25:04 +0100 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Firefox/10.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setting TZ may break time() in non-Cygwin programs References: <4F4FD8C6.5000807@t-online.de> <20120302091317.GD14404@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F513D11.2080203@t-online.de> <20120304115232.GC18852@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F53B791.2090709@t-online.de> <20120304204938.GL18852@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20120304204938.GL18852@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 4 19:42, Christian Franke wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Mar 2 22:35, Christian Franke wrote: >>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>> 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? >>> >> Let another variable change the value passed to Windows environment: >> >> $ printenv TZ >> Europe/Berlin >> >> $ cmd /c echo %TZ% >> Europe/Berlin >> >> $ export CYGWIN_WINENV_TZ=CET-1CEST >> >> $ printenv TZ >> Europe/Berlin >> >> $ cmd /c echo %TZ% >> CET-1CEST >> >> $ export CYGWIN_WINENV_TZ= >> >> $ cmd /c echo %TZ% >> %TZ% (which means TZ is not set) > Hmm. I think just unsetting TZ should be sufficient. MSVCRT uses the > current timezone as default anyway, doesn't it? > Yes. I will post a patch soon. Christian -- 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