On 27/01/2012 12:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 27 10:50, David Balažic wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'm running an up to date version of cygwin (update a week ago or so) >> on Windows XP Pro SP3. >> >> Today I noticed the date command prints the wrong time: >> - actual wall clock time: 10:47 >> - date output: Fri Jan 27 11:07:38 CEST 2012 >> - date -u: Fri Jan 27 10:08:01 UTC 2012 >> - windows system time (as in systray) : 10:48 >> >> Any clue? > > I don't know where you get the CEST from, but other than that the time > problem should be at least partially solved in the snapshots. The > difference from system time shouldn't become more than 40 ms.
I think the CEST comes from Windows. If you don't have TZ set, I think Cygwin turns the timezone names Windows provides into abbreviated names by taking the leading letters. So Windows "Central European Standard Time" => CEST and "Central European Daylight Time" => CEDT I've never liked this - arguably Windows is wrong to use non-standard naming for the timezones. It's even worse for us in the UK - we get GMTST and GMTDT - ugh. [UK may be a little unusual, but perfectly reasonable in using GMT and BST.] You can see the Windows names in registry entry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones -- Cliff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
