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Re: stupid timezone problem
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
- Subject: Re: stupid timezone problem
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:33:13 -0800
- Cc: nbecker at fred dot net, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <19981023112629.9403.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com>
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 04:26:29AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> > So, how do I fix this?
>
> Wait until Sunday! It will fix itself! ;^) The problem is that the
> DST ended in the CYGWIN package too early. DST is supposed to end the
> last Sunday in October not the first Sunday in October and this Sunday
> is the last Sunday in October.
We currently think that this timezone problem is a MS bug. Cygwin
doesn't actually compute timezones. It gets the timezone adjust
amount from a Win32 API function and uses that. Unfortunately, it
appears that that function isn't returning the correct value or some
such thing. :-(
--
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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