Ken Brown wrote:
> ... Here's what I see on my Cygwin system:
>
> $ echo $TZ
> America/New_York
>
> $ date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)'
> 2017-05-03 07:29:03 -0400 (EDT)
>
> $ TZ= date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)'
> 2017-05-03 11:29:14 + (GMT)
>
> $ unset TZ
>
> $ date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S
Hi Paul,
> > Only for Cygwin, an empty or absent TZ environment variable means GMT.
>
> That's weird; I don't know of any other system that does that.
Misunderstanding: I meant only among the platforms on Windows. I.e. for mingw
and
MSVC, an empty or absent TZ environment variable means the sys
> From: Bruno Haible
> Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 22:19:16 +0200
>
> > Also, the test "strchr (tz, '/') != NULL" allows many Cygwin-compatible
> > TZ settings that Microsoft does not document support for, e.g.,
> > TZ="PST8PDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0" for Los Angeles. Admittedly mos
On 5/3/2017 11:24 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 05/03/2017 04:31 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
Perhaps the Cygwin folks could be talked into changing an unset TZ to
mean "ask the Windows Control Panel".
This seems to already be happening. Here's what I see on my Cygwin
system:
$ echo $TZ
America/New_York
On 03/05/2017 17:24, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 05/03/2017 04:31 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
Perhaps the Cygwin folks could be talked into changing an unset TZ to
mean "ask the Windows Control Panel".
This seems to already be happening. Here's what I see on my Cygwin
system:
$ echo $TZ
America/New_York
On 05/03/2017 04:31 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
Perhaps the Cygwin folks could be talked into changing an unset TZ to
mean "ask the Windows Control Panel".
This seems to already be happening. Here's what I see on my Cygwin
system:
$ echo $TZ
America/New_York
$ date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z (%Z)'
20
On 5/3/2017 1:18 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
Bruno Haible wrote:
Only for Cygwin, an empty or absent TZ environment variable means GMT.
That's weird; I don't know of any other system that does that. In many systems,
an empty but set TZ means UTC0 without leap seconds; but an unset TZ typically
m
Bruno Haible wrote:
Only for Cygwin, an empty or absent TZ environment variable means GMT.
That's weird; I don't know of any other system that does that. In many systems,
an empty but set TZ means UTC0 without leap seconds; but an unset TZ typically
means "ask the file system for the time zo
Hi Paul,
> On 05/01/2017 09:40 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > + /* If the environment variable TZ has been set by Cygwin, neutralize it.
> > + The Microsoft CRT interprets TZ differently than Cygwin and produces
> > + incorrect results if TZ has the syntax used by Cygwin. */
> > + const ch
On 05/01/2017 09:40 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
+ /* If the environment variable TZ has been set by Cygwin, neutralize it.
+ The Microsoft CRT interprets TZ differently than Cygwin and produces
+ incorrect results if TZ has the syntax used by Cygwin. */
+ const char *tz = getenv ("TZ");
+
> * Some which should obey TZ, just that they should ignore the values set by
> Cygwin (instead of exhibiting garbage behaviour):
>
> _tzset
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa273389.aspx
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/90s5c885.aspx
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlin
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