On Oct 29 18:34, Reklau, Matthew wrote: > Running an MS Windows application from within cygwin fails because it > believes the timezone is wrong. Running from the Windows GUI and from DOS is > fine. This is a huge problem for my company as we need to be able to launch > this tool from a perl script under cygwin and cannot. > > I read: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00041.html > > which says the problem has been fixed. When is this fix going to be > applied? How can I work around it in the meantime?
There are no plans to release a new Cygwin version any time soon. You could workaround this issue by building your own Cygwin DLL from the provided 1.5.24-2 sources, with just this one patch applied: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.15&r2=1.16 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
