1.3.2: date command does not show 3-letter time zone on NT.

1.3.2: date command does not show 3-letter time zone on NT.

[Bil Mason]

I have not tested this on any other Windows platform but NT.  To reproduce
the problem, open a cygwin shell and type "date".  On my system the results
look something like this:

bash-2.05$ date
Mon Jul 16 08:46:49  2001

Note that the 3-letter time zone abbreviation should appear between the time
and the year (for me that's EDT).

No combination of options will output the time zone including the most
obvious "date +%Z" (this produces blank output).

I tried changing to a few other time zones but no selection produced output
when using the date command.

My machine is an Intel Pentium 3 running Windows NT 4.0, SP 6.






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Re: 1.3.2: date command does not show 3-letter time zone on NT.

[Ehud Karni]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:56:31 -0400, Bil Mason <Bil.Mason@healthcare.com> wrote:
> 
> I have not tested this on any other Windows platform but NT.  To reproduce
> the problem, open a cygwin shell and type "date".  On my system the results
> look something like this:
> 
> bash-2.05$ date
> Mon Jul 16 08:46:49  2001
> 
> Note that the 3-letter time zone abbreviation should appear between the time
> and the year (for me that's EDT).
> 
> No combination of options will output the time zone including the most
> obvious "date +%Z" (this produces blank output).

The Linux and the Cygwin date are derived from the same source 
[ date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0  Written by David MacKenzie ] so it should be
the same. I did not look into it but I will do it by the weekend. The
`date' that comes from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ has the 3 letters
time zone (but has other problems).

The `zic' `zdump' and various relating man pages should be included in
Cygwin. I posted a suggestion about it 2 weeks ago but got no comments.
I'm willing to maintain it (check for new versions and make any
necessary adjustments).

Ehud.


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Re: 1.3.2: date command does not show 3-letter time zone on NT.

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 03:01 PM 7/16/2001, Ehud Karni wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:56:31 -0400, Bil Mason <Bil.Mason@healthcare.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I have not tested this on any other Windows platform but NT.  To reproduce
> > the problem, open a cygwin shell and type "date".  On my system the results
> > look something like this:
> > 
> > bash-2.05$ date
> > Mon Jul 16 08:46:49  2001
> > 
> > Note that the 3-letter time zone abbreviation should appear between the time
> > and the year (for me that's EDT).
> > 
> > No combination of options will output the time zone including the most
> > obvious "date +%Z" (this produces blank output).
>
>The Linux and the Cygwin date are derived from the same source 
>[ date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0  Written by David MacKenzie ] so it should be
>the same. I did not look into it but I will do it by the weekend. The
>`date' that comes from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ has the 3 letters
>time zone (but has other problems).
>
>The `zic' `zdump' and various relating man pages should be included in
>Cygwin. I posted a suggestion about it 2 weeks ago but got no comments.
>I'm willing to maintain it (check for new versions and make any
>necessary adjustments).



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Re: 1.3.2: date command does not show 3-letter time zone on NT.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:01:04PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote:
> The `zic' `zdump' and various relating man pages should be included in
> Cygwin. I posted a suggestion about it 2 weeks ago but got no comments.
> I'm willing to maintain it (check for new versions and make any
> necessary adjustments).

zic, zdump, etc aren't part of the base distro. I don't see a reason
to install man pages for non-existant tools, somehow.

By "I'm willing to maintain it" do you mean to maintain the tools as
part of the base distro? If so, you're welcome to offer a package for
the distro, of course.

Corinna

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RE: 1.3.2: date command does not show 3-letter time zone on NT.

[Dave BT]

Hi,

I have just installed Cygwin... and pretty much everything seems to be
running fine - however - my Username contains a space.
the bash PS1 prompt displays my USERNAME with this space - even thoughI set
Username to a signle word.

Any ideas how to reset (permenantly) my Username for Cygwin to a single
name?

Dave Gordon.... ooo - Hi

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Re: 1.3.2: date command does not show 3-letter time zone on NT.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:03:04PM +0100, Dave BT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed Cygwin... and pretty much everything seems to be
> running fine - however - my Username contains a space.
> the bash PS1 prompt displays my USERNAME with this space - even thoughI set
> Username to a signle word.
> 
> Any ideas how to reset (permenantly) my Username for Cygwin to a single
> name?

Change it in the NT user manager. Call mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd.

or

set CYGWIN=... ntsec ...

Change your name in /etc/passwd.

Corinna

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