You're correct in assuming that (current-time-string) gives the
correct result
always. However, i've never seen this behaviour with the native
windows port of
XEmacs, only with the cygwin version.... so why does only the
windows version
do-the-right-thing?
This is a known problem with cygwin which Phil Aston has provided a fix for
but which the cygwin maintainers refuse to apply (or at least that was the
status quo a few months ago). The problem is due to some inappropriate uses
of win32 function calls in the cygwin dll.
andy