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Re: timezone irregularity when Windows TZ is set to Indiana
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>
- To: Joseph Tate <jtate at dragonstrider dot com>
- Cc: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:15:02 +0200
- Subject: Re: timezone irregularity when Windows TZ is set to Indiana
- References: <4068ACED.2090706@dragonstrider.com>
>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Tate writes:
Joseph> If I have a Windows PC with the timezone set to
Joseph> "(GMT-05:00)Indiana(East)", date +%Z returns the timezone as
Joseph> "USEST". Is this designed or broken behavior?
Joseph> If I set TZ to USEST date returns a GMT time. I've noticed that there
Joseph> is no zoneinfo package, but if I copy /usr/share/zoneinfo from a RHL
Joseph> system, and set the TZ env variable to 'America/Indianapolis' I get
Joseph> back EST as the timezone.
There is one, it's called tzcode.
Ciao
Volker
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