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Re: Bug in TZ with new daylight savings time
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:36:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: Bug in TZ with new daylight savings time
- References: <C874DBE9D30B584587F8CD0EC34DA8BE06BB791E@EX00.idirect.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Oct 29 18:34, Reklau, Matthew wrote:
> Running an MS Windows application from within cygwin fails because it believes the timezone is wrong.? Running from the Windows GUI and from DOS is fine.? This is a huge problem for my company as we need to be able to launch this tool from a perl script under cygwin and cannot.
>
> I read: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00041.html
>
> which says the problem has been fixed.? When is this fix going to be applied?? How can I work around it in the meantime?
There are no plans to release a new Cygwin version any time soon.
You could workaround this issue by building your own Cygwin DLL
from the provided 1.5.24-2 sources, with just this one patch
applied:
http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.15&r2=1.16
Corinna
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