Cygwin date displays only GMT on Win7

[Marco Atzeri]

On 7/7/2015 6:39 PM, Siv wrote:
> Hi, I just moved to Win7 from XP and installed Cygwin :
>
> Cygwin1.dll properties :
> File Version : 1007.28.0.0
> Product Version : 1.7.28
> Date Modified : 04-02-2014

a bit old I should say

>
> $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
>
> One major problem is that it is showing only GMT time.
> In the WinXP env, it used to show the same time as System time (GMT +05.30).
> But here it is only GMT and it is breaking many things.
>
> Should I change the locale setting or the LC_TIME or TZ?
> I tried setting :
> set env `locale -f en_IN.utf8`
> but cygwin says :
> Environment variable env `locale -f en_IN.utf8` not defined
> tzset: can't find matching POSIX timezone for Windows timezone "India
> standard time"
> locale -a shows an entry en_IN.utf8.

try en_IN.UTF-8

$ locale
LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_IN.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

what tzset now ?

>
> Googling is taking me to solutions in perl/C programs - but I want the
> solution in plain bash script
>
> Any other parameter is needed to answer or am I missing something critical?
>


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