win32 problem with timezones

ok guys. i know i left a message simular to this before, but i have a lot more info on it now, and i'm getting nowhere. i'm on win2k win vc++ 6. trying to use cygwin to compile in gcc. used the vcvars32.bat to configure my path beforehand. here's the problem. i go to compile and get an error on standard/datetime.c it's complaining about thier being no unary operators for timezone. after some digging, i found that i'm not using the extern time_t timezone; from the #if block above. instead, it's looking at the struct defination from the #include <sys/time.h>. this struct doesn't have the unary operators for them, so i blow up. i've tried casting the timezone to a long, but gcc laughed at me. anybody got a suggestion or two on this one? Chris Gardner Book Systems, Inc. cgardner@booksys.com