[Xastir] Xastir, Cygwin and GPS/TNC

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Bennett, Joe wrote:

> Just an update, after posting this email (things come to me AFTER I post) I
> played a bit more. The sleep message with the extraordinate time period seems
> to be due to the "set clock to GPS time". When that is checked, my clock gets
> set an hour ahead (set to the correct time if I disable daylight savings in
> Windows) and the date gets set to December 31, 1967. I'm gonna guess this is
> a Cygwin issue?

I just filed a bug report on this.  Might be a while before it gets
fixed though, as I don't run Cygwin.  Until then, skip the setting
of computer time via GPS on Cygwin.

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