The date manpage tells you that date uses the environment variable TZ. Set this variable in your /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc to the correct value. regards, Markus Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago writes: > Thanks a lot now I know what is the problem, but I don't know how to > resolve it. I know how to do it in linux, but not in cygwin (arrgh! :) > > In linux you just had to link /etc/localtime to > /ush/share/zoneinfo/wherever_you_are and that's it, but in cygwin there's > no /usr/share/zoneinfo folder. I looked manpages but I found nothing. -- Markus Hoenicka, PhD UT Houston Medical School Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology 6431 Fannin MSB4.114 Houston, TX 77030 (713) 500-6313, -7477 (713) 500-7444 (fax) Markus.Hoenicka@uth.tmc.edu http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ -- 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/