cygcheck's understanding of TZ

[Edward McGuire]

On 6/14/2011 1:33 PM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> Are you saying that /usr/share/zoneinfo isn't the standard location 
> for all time zone data? And that paths within that directory aren't 
> standard values for TZ? If not, what is?
There are two standards in play. The UNIX standard recognizes CET-1CEST. 
The zoneinfo standard recognizes Europe/Monaco. All UNIX systems 
implement the UNIX standard; many implement zoneinfo also. The GNU CRTL 
implements both. The Windows CRTL implements the UNIX standard (actually 
it implements a subset) but does not implement zoneinfo.
> If it is the case that that directory is not known to cygcheck then it 
> seems to me that it ought to be.
You could link cygcheck to the GNU CRTL instead of the Windows CRTL, but 
that defeats cygcheck's purpose.

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