From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26128 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2011 18:08:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 26119 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jun 2011 18:08:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:08:21 +0000 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B514D20CF2 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:08:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:08:20 -0400 Received: from [158.147.67.90] (158-147-67-90.harris.com [158.147.67.90]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6D538442F52; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:08:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DF10C13.3040208@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:08:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson Reply-To: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ References: <20110609094631.56364lzi64m7t4d3@messagerie.si.c-s.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00088.txt.bz2 On 6/9/2011 1:39 PM, Edward McGuire wrote: > So cygcheck(1) is honoring TZ, but it trips over a pathname in a > way that date(1) does not. cygcheck.exe is not a cygwin program. It is a native windows program, and thus either (a) uses Windows support for time zone data, not cygwin, or (b) has some special code to mimic cygwin's tz handling, which may not be up-to-par. You'll have to check the source code to be sure, but I rather doubt (b). -- Chuck -- 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