From: Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, cygwin@cygwin.com,
Subject: cygwin 1.7/emacs 23.1 time bug/workaround status?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:17:00 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091228171700.CC4B1141D1C0D@cedar.isis.unc.edu> (raw)
summary: A cygwin-1.7/emacs-23.1 time bug and its workaround is known,
but is it being tracked?
details:
Tom Roche Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:51:58 -0500 (EST)
>> After updating cygwin [from 1.5.x] to 1.7.1-1,
Which has been otherwise delightful!
>> which updated my emacs to 23.1, I now see
>> (current-time-string)
>> "Mon Dec 28 01:21:44 2009"
>> (current-time-zone)
>> (-3600 "GMT")
>> when bash says
>> $ date
>> Sun Dec 27 21:21:44 EST 2009
Eli Zaretskii Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:09:32 +0200
> Try asking on the Cygwin list first.
Or first try googling better :-( This bug was noted 10 months ago:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00148.html
>>> 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've reported this to the
>>> emacs-devel list [1], and the developer who responded asked me to
>>> try to get some advice on this list. Here are two facts that might
>>> provide clues:
>>> 1. The problem disappears if I set the environment variable TZ
>>> before starting emacs.
E.g.
* in winxp System>Advanced>Environment Variables>System variables
set TZ=
America/New_York
This worked for me.
* in cygwin bash, `export TZ=America/New_York` (I haven't tested)
>>> 2. The problem disappears if I run emacs under gdb. [This, of
>>> course, makes debugging difficult.]
>>> I would appreciate any advice or hints as to how I (and the emacs
>>> developers) might track this down. Also, the developers would find
>>> it useful to have a description of how cygwin handles Windows time
>>> zones.
Is this bug currently being tracked by anyone? On the cygwin side, I
don't know where there is a queryable bug tracker. On the emacs side,
I don't see it in
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?include=subject%3Acygwin;package=emacs
(which I believe is the Gnu Emacs bug tracker).
TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
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