Re: UHH - what?? bad date answer suddenly

George Weaver schrieb:
> You have probably experiencing a known problem with cygwin. See:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01016.html

just yesterday a similar fix for cron was detected and fixed.
(re-sync with windows system time after hibernate)

if it will not be fixed upstream in the libc (not very likely),
I will add a cygwin patch to the next postgresql build. But I'm very
busy right now.

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Treat"
> <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
> To: "RK" <hiding(at)freemail(dot)hu>
> Cc: <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 8:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] UHH - what?? bad date answer suddenly
>
>
>> On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:40, RK wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>> How could it postgresql on cygwin suddenly started to answer a bad date.
>>> Server was running on cygwin for months (!) by now.
>>> But from today it started to anser bad date to freguently called
>>> now() funtion.
>>> for
>>> SELECT NOW() it answered: 2004-08-31....... ????
>>> What has happened?
>>> After restarting everything became just fine again
>>> cygwin, 7.3 postgresql
>>>
>>
>> PostgreSQL just returns system time for now(), so most likely something
>> happened with your system time. Only other thing I could think of
>> would be
>> you were select now() in a transaction that had been open for a few
>> months,
>> but that seems unlikely.
>>
>> --
>> Robert Treat
>> Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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