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Re: date(1) doesn't display a timezone?
- From: AJ Reins <tbisp at yahoo dot com>
- To: Eric De Mund <ead at ixian dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 18:33:40 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: date(1) doesn't display a timezone?
--- Eric De Mund <ead@ixian.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Have I misconfigured environment variables in both bash(1) and zsh(1),
> or is date(1) not returning a timezone for other folks, too? I'm running
> what I believe to be a complete cygwin installation from early October
> or so.
>
> % echo $TZ
> PST8PDT
> % date
> Thu Dec 5 14:42:48 2002
> % date -R
> Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:43:30 -0800
> % date +%z
> -0800
> % date +%Z
>
> %
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
> p.s. In case it provides useful information about my configuration,
> cygcheck(1) reports:
>
> % cygcheck --sysinfo
I HAD the same problem, so configured sh-utils for debug and saw that the problem
disappeared. I have no idea why the version distributed doesn't show the timezone
whilst the version I built does.
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