On Mar 2 22:35, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Mar 1 21:15, Christian Franke wrote: > >>TZ environment variable is set by default since base-files 4.0.7. > >> > >>Unfortunately this breaks the time() calculation for all non-Cygwin > >>programs run from Cygwin if Microsoft C runtime (mscrt*.dll) is > >>used. MS CRT evaluates TZ but supports only a very old syntax > >>subset. IIRC this is the case since VS1.x (DOS/Win16) and did not > >>change since at least VS10. > >I'm sorry, but I really don't care enough. If that's a problem, then > >just unset TZ in your environment before calling non-Cygwin tools, no? > > Of course, after tracking down the problem to the new TZ it is now > easy to unset it :-) > > No problem in scripts, but inconvenient and error prone for interactive use. > > > >But, as usual, PTC. > > OK, ... > > > > >Simple: Unset TZ for Win32 programs run from Cygwin. > > > >More flexible: Set (unset) TZ=CYGWIN_WINENV_TZ if this variable is > >set (to empty). Otherwise keep TZ as is. > > > > would a patch for any of the above have a chance to get accepted?
If it's not getting too complicated, yes. However, the second idea I don't understand. Can you explain this differently? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
