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List:       cygwin
Subject:    Re: Bug in TZ with new daylight savings time
From:       Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin () cygwin ! com>
Date:       2007-10-30 9:36:56
Message-ID: 20071030093656.GJ20400 () calimero ! vinschen ! de
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On Oct 29 18:34, Reklau, Matthew wrote:
> Running an MS Windows application from within cygwin fails because it believes the \
> timezone is wrong.  Running from the Windows GUI and from DOS is fine.  This is a \
> huge problem for my company as we need to be able to launch this tool from a perl \
> script under cygwin and cannot. 
> I read: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00041.html
> 
> which says the problem has been fixed.  When is this fix going to be applied?  How \
> can I work around it in the meantime?

There are no plans to release a new Cygwin version any time soon.
You could workaround this issue by building your own Cygwin DLL
from the provided 1.5.24-2 sources, with just this one patch
applied:

http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/localtime.cc.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.15&r2=1.16



Corinna

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