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Re: stupid timezone problem


On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 04:26:29AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> > So, how do I fix this?
> 
> Wait until Sunday!  It will fix itself!  ;^)  The problem is that the
> DST ended in the CYGWIN package too early.  DST is supposed to end the
> last Sunday in October not the first Sunday in October and this Sunday
> is the last Sunday in October.

We currently think that this timezone problem is a MS bug.  Cygwin
doesn't actually compute timezones.  It gets the timezone adjust
amount from a Win32 API function and uses that.  Unfortunately, it
appears that that function isn't returning the correct value or some
such thing.  :-(

-- 
Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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