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Re: Problem with date after date is modified in scripts
Raman Ravi <swcritic <at> yahoo.com> writes:
>
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> >
>
> > > WOuld appreciate some help in understanding and more importantly resolving
> > > this issue.
> >
> > This is a shortcoming in Cygwin itself. You can only workaround it
> > by setting the date from a Cygwin process for now. This will only
> > affect Cygwin processes running in the same user session, though.
> > There's a TODO in the affected code in Cygwin which describes this
> > very problem. Unfortunately this requires a redesign of the code
> > in question...
> >
> > Corinna
> >
>
> Hi Corinna,
>
> Thanks for the reply (and information). I guess I have to retrieve the time
> using a "windows call" from my TMSERVER and then set the date/time back using
> date command in shutdown.sh
>
> Thanks.
> Raman
>
>
Have a goofy solution but it works (if anybody else is interested)
1. Create a script to get the time string
getTimeStr
#!/bin/sh
net time "\\\\$TMSERVER"
2nd shell script "syncTime" contains
#!/bin/sh
TMSTR=`getTimeStr | grep Current | awk '{print $6,$7,$8}'`
date +"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M %p" -s "$TMSTR" >> $REG_DEV_NULL
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