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Re: date command shows time 20 minutes into future
On 27/01/2012 12:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 27 10:50, David BalaÅic wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm running an up to date version of cygwin (update a week ago or so)
>> on Windows XP Pro SP3.
>>
>> Today I noticed the date command prints the wrong time:
>> - actual wall clock time: 10:47
>> - date output: Fri Jan 27 11:07:38 CEST 2012
>> - date -u: Fri Jan 27 10:08:01 UTC 2012
>> - windows system time (as in systray) : 10:48
>>
>> Any clue?
>
> I don't know where you get the CEST from, but other than that the time
> problem should be at least partially solved in the snapshots. The
> difference from system time shouldn't become more than 40 ms.
I think the CEST comes from Windows. If you don't have TZ set,
I think Cygwin turns the timezone names Windows provides into
abbreviated names by taking the leading letters.
So Windows "Central European Standard Time" => CEST
and "Central European Daylight Time" => CEDT
I've never liked this - arguably Windows is wrong to use non-standard
naming for the timezones. It's even worse for us in the UK - we get
GMTST and GMTDT - ugh. [UK may be a little unusual, but perfectly
reasonable in using GMT and BST.]
You can see the Windows names in registry entry
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones
-- Cliff
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