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RE: B19: time reporting problem


Yes, This is the Daylight Savings Time turned off too soon bug
that has been discussed on this list since the first sunday in
october.  Fortunately, it should go away in 2 weeks :-)

-Peter

Peter A. Vogel
Manager, SW Configuration Management
Chromatic Research, Inc.  
http://www.chromatic.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com [mailto:owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com]On
> Behalf Of Laurent Michel
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 6:58 AM
> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Subject: B19: time reporting problem
> 
> 
> I have B19 installed on my system (NT4.0SP3)
> 
> I found out that the time is incorrectly reported by several programs:
> 
> executing the command 'date' at the prompt returns a time stamp which is
> *EXACTLY* one hour back in time.
> 
> In the same spirit, doing the following:
> 
> touch foo.C
> ls -l foo.C
> 
> report a time stamp for foo.C which is exactly 1 hour back in time.
> 
> If I use the date command or the ls command that is part of the MKS
> toolkit, I get the correct time.
> 
> I observed this behavior on two different machine with similar
> installations.
> 
> I you need a sample output of the various command, or more details, let
> ,me know.
> 
> 
> --
>         - Laurent
> 
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