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Re: 1.3.2: date command does not show 3-letter time zone on NT.
- To: Bil dot Mason at healthcare dot com
- Subject: Re: 1.3.2: date command does not show 3-letter time zone on NT.
- From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud at unix dot simonwiesel dot co dot il>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:01:04 +0300
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency
- References: <440AB7F0D193D411871400C00D0048CE54AB58@gateway.healthcare.com>
- Reply-to: ehud at unix dot simonwiesel dot co dot il
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:56:31 -0400, Bil Mason <Bil.Mason@healthcare.com> wrote:
>
> I have not tested this on any other Windows platform but NT. To reproduce
> the problem, open a cygwin shell and type "date". On my system the results
> look something like this:
>
> bash-2.05$ date
> Mon Jul 16 08:46:49 2001
>
> Note that the 3-letter time zone abbreviation should appear between the time
> and the year (for me that's EDT).
>
> No combination of options will output the time zone including the most
> obvious "date +%Z" (this produces blank output).
The Linux and the Cygwin date are derived from the same source
[ date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 Written by David MacKenzie ] so it should be
the same. I did not look into it but I will do it by the weekend. The
`date' that comes from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ has the 3 letters
time zone (but has other problems).
The `zic' `zdump' and various relating man pages should be included in
Cygwin. I posted a suggestion about it 2 weeks ago but got no comments.
I'm willing to maintain it (check for new versions and make any
necessary adjustments).
Ehud.
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