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Re: cvs/daylight savings again!?
- From: David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:46:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: cvs/daylight savings again!?
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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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