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Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 15:27:07 -0400
From: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
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To: jose AT kiubo DOT net, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Empty timezone in date command
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I experienced this same problem with an older version of cygwin 
(1.3.6?), and I don't believe it has been fixed. Basically, the newlib 
implementation is inadequate. I was unable to compile fileutils OOTB 
because the timezone was not and could not be set. The answer that I 
received from Corinna Vinschen was "there must be a problem with the 
newlib implementation". Since I don't know what this means, or the time 
to find out, I simply gave up on compiling fileutils at all.

HTH,
Peter

Jose Ambros-Ingerson wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've recently installed Cygwin (1.3.10) on a Dell Laptop running Win2000 and
> have been very pleased and impressed by the quality of this package.
> 
> However, when trying to install a Perl module that uses
> Date::Manip::TimeZone it complained that the timezone was not set.
> 
> When trying to correct this I noticed that the "date" command does not
> output the timezone. E.g.,
> % date
> Fri May 31 15:06:56  2002
> %                           ^^ Here it should output EDT or similar
> 
> Is this standard behavior in Cygnus or is my installation faulty?
> Is there a way to fix this?
> 
> Please reply to my directly as I don't subscribe to the list.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jose Ambros-Ingerson
> 
> 
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