From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23374 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2011 22:01:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 23366 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jun 2011 22:01:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vx0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-vx0-f171.google.com) (209.85.220.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:01:38 +0000 Received: by vxc40 with SMTP id 40so2062400vxc.2 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.184.98 with SMTP id et2mr1850299vdc.285.1307656897064; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:01:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.113.6 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:01:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110609210632.GA1457@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> References: <20110609094631.56364lzi64m7t4d3@messagerie.si.c-s.fr> <4DF10C13.3040208@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <811AA35F-E300-46E5-9FE3-EE7D5E58194B@free.fr> <20110609210632.GA1457@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> From: Edward McGuire Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: cygcheck's understanding of TZ To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00099.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 16:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: > We're not changing anything. Having the date there is useful. > > Again: you shouldn't use "cygcheck -s" as a method to find the system > date. While strictly true, I doubt that continuing to repeat this caution will be worthwhile. You pointed out that having the date there is useful. I won't try to mind-read the OP's purpose, but I don't suppose it was simply to display the date, and I do suppose it is better served now that he knows how to get the date right. Cheers, MetaEd -- 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