From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28315 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2011 19:22:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 28307 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jun 2011 19:22:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_YG,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm23.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (HELO nm23.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com) (98.139.212.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:21:53 +0000 Received: from [98.139.212.151] by nm23.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Jun 2011 19:21:52 -0000 Received: from [98.139.211.207] by tm8.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Jun 2011 19:21:52 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp216.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 Jun 2011 19:21:52 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@108.49.32.211 with login) by smtp216.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Jun 2011 12:21:51 -0700 PDT Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9983442804E for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:21:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:22:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ Message-ID: <20110614192147.GB15316@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20110610142124.GA5849@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <1D852702-CB83-4DAA-A31A-D3F8A01E432A@free.fr> <20110613153344.GA19880@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <716EA16C9FD24A4CBE13D1A01AAF3747@cit.wayne.edu> <20110614152814.GA3123@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4DF79F82.7070205@metaed.com> <4C1F3C3BB7EC455F9FE3D08A28DE58F6@cit.wayne.edu> <4DF7B430.4010508@metaed.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DF7B430.4010508@metaed.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00155.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:19:12PM -0500, Edward McGuire wrote: >On 6/14/2011 1:33 PM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: >> Are you saying that /usr/share/zoneinfo isn't the standard location >> for all time zone data? And that paths within that directory aren't >> standard values for TZ? If not, what is? >There are two standards in play. The UNIX standard recognizes CET-1CEST. >The zoneinfo standard recognizes Europe/Monaco. All UNIX systems >implement the UNIX standard; many implement zoneinfo also. The GNU CRTL >implements both. The Windows CRTL implements the UNIX standard (actually >it implements a subset) but does not implement zoneinfo. >> If it is the case that that directory is not known to cygcheck then it >> seems to me that it ought to be. >You could link cygcheck to the GNU CRTL instead of the Windows CRTL, but >that defeats cygcheck's purpose. Ok. We're now inexplicably looping back to the beginning of the discussion. Please consider this thread officially terminated. cgf -- 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