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Subject: Re: Setting TZ may break time() in non-Cygwin programs
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On Mar  1 21:15, Christian Franke wrote:
> TZ environment variable is set by default since base-files 4.0.7.
> 
> Unfortunately this breaks the time() calculation for all non-Cygwin
> programs run from Cygwin if Microsoft C runtime (mscrt*.dll) is
> used. MS CRT evaluates TZ but supports only a very old syntax
> subset. IIRC this is the case since VS1.x (DOS/Win16) and did not
> change since at least VS10.

I'm sorry, but I really don't care enough.  If that's a problem, then
just unset TZ in your environment before calling non-Cygwin tools, no?
But, as usual, PTC.


Corinna

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