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From: Raman Ravi <swcritic AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem with date after date is modified in scripts
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:13:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
 
> > WOuld appreciate some help in understanding and more importantly resolving
> > this issue.
> 
> This is a shortcoming in Cygwin itself.  You can only workaround it
> by setting the date from a Cygwin process for now.  This will only
> affect Cygwin processes running in the same user session, though.
> There's a TODO in the affected code in Cygwin which describes this
> very problem.  Unfortunately this requires a redesign of the code
> in question...
> 
> Corinna
> 


Hi Corinna,

Thanks for the reply (and information). I guess I have to retrieve the time
using a "windows call" from my TMSERVER and then set the date/time back using
date command in shutdown.sh

Thanks.
Raman




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