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Re: cygdrive uses incorrect date


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According to Antoine Solomon on 4/14/2006 11:48 AM:
> Hello all,
> are there any instructions on how to rebuild the cygwin.dll ?   this
> 1969 problem on windows2000 is a serious problem because of our
> license server is unable to check the date on /cygdrive/.   Also
> current time on my windows systems are all in the GMT eastern time.

Actually, based on your email headers:
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:48:42 -0400

your computer is 4 hours west of GMT, so 0 seconds since the Unix epoch
would show up as 8pm Dec 31 1969.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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