Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > You can set the time zone by setting environment variable > TZ to a file path relative to /usr/share/zoneinfo, e.g., > > export TZ=America/New_York > > I'm less clear on how it determines the time zone > when TZ is not set. My guess is that TZ=posixrules > is the default. Corrections are encouraged.
Well, around 5 years ago I looked into this, as I found that the default timzone names used on UK installations were wrong. Here's what I posted back then: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00126.html Since then the zoneinfo implementation has been added, but it appears that if you don't explicitly set TZ the default is still taken from your Windows timezone setting, so I still get GMTST and GMTDT, which are somewhat unconventional and confusing for UK users. Needless to say, a UK Linux installation correctly defaults to GMT and BST. I suppose setup.exe could be trained to convert the windows timezone into a sensible global TZ setting - or possibly it could just present the timezone list for a manual choice, as most attended Linux installs do. -- Cliff -- 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
