strange delay in date?

Thu Apr 11 10:05:00 GMT 2002

On 2002年4月11日, Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago wrote:
 > On 2002年4月11日, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
 > 
 > > Upon re-reading my reply I noticed that it was too terse. date shows
 > > UTC in your case because you did not set up your timezone
 > > correctly. If you do, date will show your local time, date -u will
 > > show UTC.
 > > 
 > > In my case, I set TZ to CST6CDT, which means time zone is CST, I'm 6 h
 > > west of UTC, and my daylight savings time zone is CDT
 > > 
 > > regards,
 > > Markus
 > 
 > 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! :)
OK! I answer myself: setting the TZ variable:
$ export TZ=CST-1CDT; date
Thu Apr 11 18:55:26 2002
$ date -u
Thu Apr 11 16:55:29 2002
How can I set this variable as the default? In /etc/profile?... let's
try... yes! it works although I don't get bash hour prompt to work:
17:01:07 ~$ date
Thu Apr 11 19:01:10 2002
there's still a delay of 2 hours between the two dates. Maybe there's any
other configuration for this...
And now I want this command (date) to work from cmd.exe too (not only from
bash.exe): I guessed that probably setting a variable TZ to the timezone
in cmd.exe would work and so it does!:
C:\>c:\cygwin\bin\date
Thu Apr 11 17:00:15 2002
C:\>set TZ=CST-1CDT
C:\>c:\cygwin\bin\date
Thu Apr 11 19:00:35 2002
That's it!
m4c.
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