On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Marten Jan de Ruiter wrote: > Today, the problems with the date_and_time function were gone. I have no > clue what solved the issue. I did not install upgrades from Cygwin. I did > not recompile the program. >
Maybe a time shift issue? a.k.a. Daylight Savings Time > What I did differently, is that I have used the Cygwin Bash shell, the > Cygwin terminal and the Cygwin-X W-win server, and played around with the > options of the Cygwin Terminal. There is configuration page for Text > containing a font field, a field for font options, and a field for the > locale and character set. I have played a bit with the locale. Afterwards, I > noticed that my program now issues the correct time, even when the option is > restored to the (Default) setting it was in originally. I assume that this > playing around corrected the glitch, but the details escape me. > Maybe a coincidental effect of DST? > Still, a month ago, I also played around with setting the locale on the > command line in the Cygwin Bash login, and that did not resolve the issue; > so "playing around with the locale" is not the entire story. > > I am a bit unsatisfied that I do not know what clicked right under the hood > of Cygwin, but pragmatical enough to enjoy that the issue is gone. > Or maybe just hiding until November? -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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
