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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:38:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <691346aa-38bc-fe9c-bd05-c64add3a9e2c@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1h9vu3s.fsf@Otto.invalid>

On 6/11/2021 1:38 AM, ASSI wrote:
> Ken Brown via Cygwin writes:
>> Can you be more specific?  What goes wrong if TZ is not set?  I
>> haven't seen any POSIX or Linux documentation that says it should be
>> set, and I've just checked on two different Linux distros that it's
>> not set by default.
> 
> The scripts in base-files were introduced in 2012 after an explicit
> request by Corinna:
> 
> https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin-developers/2012-01/msg00042.html
> 
> Whether any or all of this is still relevant needs to be checked before
> we turn around and change the default again.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of the history.  Let's wait until Corinna has a chance to 
chime in.

Ken

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-11 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-08 17:37 Keith Thompson
2021-06-09  3:43 ` Brian Inglis
2021-06-09 22:31 ` Keith Thompson
2021-06-10  2:36   ` Brian Inglis
2021-06-10 14:57     ` Ken Brown
2021-06-10 15:25       ` KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)
2021-06-10 18:31       ` Brian Inglis
2021-06-10 19:50         ` Ken Brown
2021-06-11  5:38           ` ASSI
2021-06-11 13:38             ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-06-11 17:33           ` Brian Inglis
2021-06-11 18:05             ` Ken Brown
2021-06-12 16:34               ` Brian Inglis
2021-06-12 22:44                 ` Ken Brown
2021-06-11 10:51     ` Andrey Repin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-06-07  6:59 Mike Kaganski
2021-06-08  4:34 ` Russell VT
2021-06-08  7:51   ` Mike Kaganski
2021-06-08 11:37 ` L A Walsh
2021-06-08 12:28   ` Mike Kaganski
2021-06-08 13:04     ` L A Walsh
2021-06-08 13:30       ` Mike Kaganski
2021-06-08 13:57         ` L A Walsh
2021-06-08 14:10           ` Mike Kaganski
2021-06-08 14:15             ` L A Walsh
2021-06-08 13:36       ` Mike Kaganski
2021-06-08 20:03       ` Mike Kaganski
2021-06-09  5:50         ` Brian Inglis
2021-06-11  6:01   ` Mike Kaganski

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