According the the scsh manual, (date) is supposed to return the current date in the local time zone. However, in the Cygwin scsh-0.6.7-2 package, it only works that way the first time that (date) is called. After that, it returns dates in the UTC timezone.
Test script: #!/usr/bin/scsh -s !# (define (show-date d) (display (date:tz-name d)) (display " ") (display (date:tz-secs d)) (newline)) (show-date (date)) (show-date (date)) Using the Cygwin scsh-0.6.7-2 package, I get this incorrect output -- the two lines should be the same: PST+8 -28800 UCT 0 I uninstalled the Cygwin scsh package, and rebuilt scsh from source, using the scsh-0.6.7.tar.gz tarball. I got the same incorrect results. I remade scsh in a Fedora environment from the same tarball, and I got correct results: PST+8 -28800 PST+8 -28800 So far, I haven't figured out why I get different results on Cygwin. I did observe that, on Cygwin, different #ifdef compilation conditions are used in compiling time1.c. When compiling on Cygwin, HAVE_TZNAME is true and HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE is false. When compiling on Fedora, the opposite is the case. I don't know if that is relevant to my problem, but I thought I'd mention it for what it's worth. Any suggestions will be much appreciated! Cheers, John -- 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/
