Re: Resetting time via time server doesn't affect cygwin 'date'

[ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

Corinna Vinschen writes:

> There's an internal counter which is initialized by the first Cygwin
> process started in a session.  So time chanegs made by a Cygwin process
> are seen by other Cygwin processes in the same session, but time changes
> outside of Cygwin or outside of the same session are not seen, unless all
> Cygwin processes in a session are stopped and restarted.  This will be
> fixed at one point.

Thanks for clarifying.

ht
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