cvs/daylight savings again!?

[David Abrahams]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> I'm following up in this thread:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/6688
>
> I can't believe the latest reference to this problem 
> I can find is from 2002.  Well, maybe I shouldn't be
> surprised.  I haven't run into it for years, but now
> it's back, with a freshly-installed Cygwin installation
> (about 2 weeks old).  I'm in daylight savings time (EDT)
> which is GMT-4:00, and when I update, I get GMT-1:00
> times in my CVS/Entries isntead of Correct UTC.  What
> is the fix?
>
> If something needs to be debugged, I'm happy to try
> to help in any way I can.

Problem solved.  This was due to the stupid Borland C++ Builder X
installer which installed its own broken cvs executable that doesn't
account for the NT daylight savings "feature."  I renamed it and
everything went back to normal.  Sorry for the noise.

:(

I wonder if this should be a FAQ somewhere?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


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