Debugging a time zone problem

[Ken Brown]

On 5/14/2009 5:38 AM, Marc Girod wrote:
> 
> Ken Brown-6 wrote:
>> I've built emacs 23 under both cygwin 1.5 and 1.7, and it runs fine for 
>> me except for a glitch involving time zones:  Emacs gets the local time 
>> zone wrong by 4 hours.
>>
> I am using your port on 1.7, and cannot reproduce.

BTW, my original report (that the time zone was off by 4 hours) was 
misleading.  After comparing my results with those of Angelo Graziosi in 
Italy, I realized that, for both Angelo and me, emacs thought our local 
time zone was GMT minus one hour.  (This was in February, before 
daylight savings time.)

> Looking at the sources, the most suspicious place given your description,
> seems to be msdos.c, around lines 4453-4494...

Thanks for looking into this.  I'm about to leave town for a few days, 
but maybe I'll make another attempt when I return (unless you've already 
solved it before then).

Ken

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