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Getting different times with or without --login
- From: "Francesco Pizzolante" <fpz at missioncriticalit dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:11:00 +0200
- Subject: Getting different times with or without --login
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
Hi,
I noticed that I'm getting different times from the command line when use
--login or not.
Here's a simple test.
1. Start from a Windows command prompt and start bash with "bash --login". In
this case, I can see that the TZ variable is set to "Europe/Brussels".
If I run date, I get "Wed, Oct 09, 2013 5:00:52 PM", while running the
following command "emacs -Q --batch --eval '(message "%s"
(format-time-string "%H:%M"))'" returns "16:00" (I get a difference of one
hour).
2. Start from a Windows command prompt and start bash with "bash". In this
case, the TZ variable is not set (no profile loaded).
In this case, the 2 previous commands return the same correct time.
Note that the "date" command returns the correct time in any case (with and
without --login), while the emacs command returns the correct time only when
--login is not used (I'm using a Windows version of Emacs, 24.3). I have no
issue when using the Cygwin version of Emacs.
I don't understand what's wrong in my configuration. Everything should be fine
even when using the "bash --login" command to start Cygwin (this is the what
the standard cygwin.bat batch file does).
Any hint is welcome.
Thanks a lot.
Francesco
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