On Saturday 29 Sep 01, Gerrit P. Haase writes: > >But I don't understand what the point is. What problem does it solve? > >I've never set TZ on Win98 or NT, and I don't see any discrepency > >between ls -l and Explorer times. So I don't know what to write in > >the FAQ. >> If I run 'date' I get differences without the TZ setting. (I get GMT output > vs. CET). I don't, on neither Win98 nor NT. You don't say what system you're using. I am on BST now, which is +0100. I'd like to understand why date needs TZ for you and not me, before trying to explain it in the FAQ. Thanks, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/