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From: "Markus Hoenicka" <Markus DOT Hoenicka AT uth DOT tmc DOT edu>
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:55:31 +0000
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: strange delay in date?
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The date manpage tells you that date uses the environment variable
TZ. Set this variable in your /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc to the correct
value.

regards,
Markus

Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago writes:
 > Thanks a lot now I know what is the problem, but I don't know how to
 > resolve it. I know how to do it in linux, but not in cygwin (arrgh! :)
 > 
 > In linux you just had to link /etc/localtime to
 > /ush/share/zoneinfo/wherever_you_are and that's it, but in cygwin there's
 > no /usr/share/zoneinfo folder. I looked manpages but I found nothing.

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