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Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 18:29:50 -0400
To: John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>,
        "'Sean Phelan'" <sphelan AT sqcn DOT com>,
        "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT hotpop DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: RE: Touch has a bug w/Daylight Savings time in the US
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Yes, assuming that Sean is using the stock version of Cygwin B20.x, daylight
savings time problems are a known issue.  Its been fixed for a long time in 
the snapshots though, so it will be fixed in the upcoming release as well.

Larry


At 06:16 PM 4/3/00, John Wiersba wrote:
>Both work properly on my machine, but maybe it's because I'm running the
>3/16 snapshot.
>
>-- John Wiersba
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean Phelan [mailto:sphelan AT sqcn DOT com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 6:22 PM
> > To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > Subject: Touch has a bug w/Daylight Savings time in the US
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > In case I'm the first one to discover this, there's a problem 
> > with Cygwin's
> > TOUCH. It doesn't handle the daylight-savings crossover properly.
> > 
> > --------------------
> > Once the Daylight-Savings is crossed (ex:4/1/99), touch 
> > improperly sets the
> > file date if the date is before this crossover date.
> > EX: "touch 0401120900 file.ext" will set the date to 1:09p 
> > instead of 12:09p
> > BUT: "touch 0403120900 file.ext" will set the date to 12:09p 
> > as expected.
> > Naturally, this is a bug which could bite someone.
> > --------------------
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > Sean
> > 
> > 
> > 
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