[Mingw-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-1874102 ] MSYS does not recognize windows timezone on german windows

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Bugs item #1874102, was opened at 2008-01-17 12:52
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Submitted By: Qter (trautbrg)
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Summary: MSYS does not recognize windows timezone on german windows

Initial Comment:
Greetings,

I am running the latest snapshots of msys quite successfully on a German windows.

   - bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2
   - coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2
   - MSYS-1.0.11-20071204.tar.bz2
   - msysCORE-1.0.11-2007.01.19-1.tar.bz2

However whenever I use ls -l  or date, then 
MSYS outputs the UTC time and not the time 
of the timezone to which windows is set.
(in my case I am in timezone 
"GMT +1:00 Amsterdam, Berlin, ...")

It would be great if msys would recognize the
actual timezone even with a German localization
of windows.

Btw: Also with the current release version of msys
the same problem exists.


thanks in advance
 
   Wolfgang


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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2008-02-11 08:49

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In ~/.profile add one of the following.  I'm not sure which will work for
you.

export TZ=MET-1DST
export TZ=Europe/Amsterdam

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Comment By: Qter (trautbrg)
Date: 2008-02-11 06:17

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unfortunately there is no way for automating the correct setting of the
TimeZone
via a shell script as the correct TimeZone names which are used by the
shell are
not known/returned by windows.

since we would like to deploy msys on an international scale this really
is an issue!

N.B.: on windows the TimeZone information is stored in the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
The SubKey ActiveTimeBias contains the offset in minutes to GMT

When setting the timezone to GMT-ActiveTimeBias/60, then the time itslef
is correct,
but the displayed timezone is wrong!

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Comment By: Qter (trautbrg)
Date: 2008-02-11 06:07

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sorry for the diff post, I clicked the wrong task

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2008-02-11 04:54

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For timezone try adding a TZ environment variable.

For which, check out the most recent version from CVS.  It is best to not
mix issues.

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Comment By: Qter (trautbrg)
Date: 2008-02-11 00:53

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This is the diff that will escape the blanks in the directory names:

53c53
<       echo "$WHICH"  | sed 's/ /\\ /g'
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>       echo "$WHICH"

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