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Re: Cygwin date displays only GMT on Win7
- From: Siv <sivakumarjr at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 14:07:23 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin date displays only GMT on Win7
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Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> On 7/7/2015 10:38 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > On 7/7/2015 9:50 PM, Siv wrote:
> >> Siv <sivakumarjr <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >>
>
> >>
> >> $ date --date='TZ="Asia/Calcutta"'
> >> 06 Jul 2015 06:30:00 PM
> >
> > Wrong town ?
>
> tzselect suggests
> ----------------------------
> #? 14
>
> The following information has been given:
>
> India
>
> Therefore TZ='Asia/Kolkata' will be used.
> ------------------------------
>
> In theory Asia/Calcutta should be an alias for Asia/Kolkata;
> but it seems to not work properly.
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
>
date --date='TZ="ANYTHING" isn't working as expected
Thanx. Anyway the last 2 cmds worked :
date Wed, Jul 08, 2015 2:03:12 PM
date -u Wed, Jul 08, 2015 2:03:13 PM
date --date='TZ="Asia/Delhi"' Wed, Jul 08, 2015 12:00:00 AM
date --date='TZ="Asia/Calcutta"' Tue, Jul 07, 2015 6:30:00 PM
date --date='TZ="Asia/Kolkata"' Tue, Jul 07, 2015 6:30:00 PM
TZ=Asia/Delhi date Wed, Jul 08, 2015 2:03:14 PM
TZ=Asia/Kolkata date Wed, Jul 08, 2015 7:33:15 PM
TZ=Asia/Calcutta date Wed, Jul 08, 2015 7:33:15 PM
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