/bin/date differs 10-12 minutes from Windows time

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 29 14:47:00 GMT 2011


On 7/29/2011 3:28 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> I'm experiencing windows time (which is right) being constantly
> 10-12 minutes behind GNU's time:
>
>    $ cmd.exe /c time /t ; /bin/date
>    09:21
>    Fri Jul 29 09:33:22 WEDT 2011
>
> I've seens this for several weeks on this PC now.
>
> Why is that? If it were 1 or 2 hours, I'd say it a TZ issue ...

Not sure.  I don't see that but I'm also in a different TZ.  Perhaps
you should look at your cygcheck output for clues or compare the
configuration of this machine with others that don't show this problem.

-- 
Larry

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