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Re: date reports wrong date/time with DST 2007 on windows 2003 in timezone


lei chao wrote:
Hi,

I just installed cygwin 1.5.24-2 on windows 2003.   To test some
timezone issue,  I set  system time to Nov 2,  2007.    Then if I set
TZ to PST8PDT,  date command reports one hour behind the correct time.
  but if I unset TZ,  date works well.   And it looks like date can
work with PST8PDT correctly in 2006 instead of 2007.

<snip>


Try setting the date to 11/21 and try again.  IIRC, DST extends an extra
3 weeks this year in the US.  Don't know why it would "work" without TZ
set though.  Sounds like a Windows problem.  Is your system up-to-date
with patches.

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