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Re: Time offset strangeness
- To: David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Time offset strangeness
- From: Sebastien Carpe <scarpe@atos-group.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:10:33 +0100
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Well, i tried the cygwin1.dll latest snapshot, and also the sergey coolview,
but none of these library fixed the problem :with coolview, date still tell
date one hour ahead.
and i didn't manage to start cygnus.bat with the cygwin dll snapshot from the
26th of January 1999. Anyone any clue ?
David Starks-Browning wrote:
>
> On Thursday 11 Mar 99, Sebastien Carpe writes:
> > For some days, i've been experiencing a strange time leap in the date batch or
> > in my asclock. The hour given is 1 hour ahead the real date. The date in the
> > so-called is however correct "system tray". I've rebooted (on Windows like,
> > this often fixes things ;) ), but yet, it didn't help.
> > I suspect there is just something wrong in the cygwin code, may be about the
> > summer time and winter time leap... Is Cygwin accurate with this special
> > feature ?
> > Any way, this is just annoying when i think it's time to leave office, but
> > there's one more hour, and it will be a real problem, when i'll end up using
> > Xemacs for mailing if my mails are not time stamped correctly. (for now, i'll
> > keep my way on with Communicator, until i can fix VM stamps to say my mails
> > have not been sent the 1st January of 1970 !! )
>
> There is a known time problem in B20.1, cf. the thread beginning at
> <http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32/1998-Dec/0446.html>. Try a later
> snapshot of the cygwin dll.
>
> David
>
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