Siv <sivakumarjr <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > On 7/7/2015 6:39 PM, Siv wrote: > > > Hi, I just moved to Win7 from XP and installed Cygwin : > > > > > > Cygwin1.dll properties : > > > File Version : 1007.28.0.0 > > > Product Version : 1.7.28 > > > Date Modified : 04-02-2014 > > > > a bit old I should say > > > > > > > > > $ bash --version > > > GNU bash, version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) > > > Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > > > > > > One major problem is that it is showing only GMT time. > > > In the WinXP env, it used to show the same time as System time (GMT +05.30). > > > But here it is only GMT and it is breaking many things. > > > > > > Should I change the locale setting or the LC_TIME or TZ? > > > I tried setting : > > > set env `locale -f en_IN.utf8` > > > but cygwin says : > > > Environment variable env `locale -f en_IN.utf8` not defined > > > tzset: can't find matching POSIX timezone for Windows timezone "India > > > standard time" > > > locale -a shows an entry en_IN.utf8. > > > > try en_IN.UTF-8 > > > > $ locale > > LANG=en_IN.UTF-8 > > LC_CTYPE="en_IN.UTF-8" > > LC_NUMERIC="en_IN.UTF-8" > > LC_TIME="en_IN.UTF-8" > > LC_COLLATE="en_IN.UTF-8" > > LC_MONETARY="en_IN.UTF-8" > > LC_MESSAGES="en_IN.UTF-8" > > LC_ALL= > > > > what tzset now ? > > > > > > > > Googling is taking me to solutions in perl/C programs - but I want the > > > solution in plain bash script > > > > > > Any other parameter is needed to answer or am I missing something critical? > > > > > > > > > Thanx for the fast response Marco. > Same error as above : > tzset: can't find matching POSIX timezone for Windows timezone "India > standard time". > > As I understand, is this a compatibility issue of cygwin with Win7? > One of them has withdrawn support/definition for the Indian timezone? > Any matching TZ for GMT +05.30? > > I tried running existing setup.exe v2.831 (32 bit) to update cygwin1.dll but > setup is saying that the ini file is from a newer version of setup-x86.exe > and then NL errors. Can't proceed. > > Running latest setup.exe v2.871 (32 bit) needing total install which I don't > want to do now as it might break the compilers, make et al. > >
locale output : $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= updated in the shell one by one : $ locale LANG=en_IN.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_IN.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_IN.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_IN.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_IN.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_IN.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_IN.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Still date gives GMT time $ date 07 Jul 2015 07:42:52 PM $ date --date='TZ="Asia/Calcutta"' 06 Jul 2015 06:30:00 PM -- 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
