Re: /bin/date handling of daylight savings

[Jean-Yves Provost]

Bob,

Still broken in sh-utils 2.0.11

I upgraded to 2.0.11 as you suggested

address@hidden jyp]$ rpm -qfi /bin/date
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Name        : sh-utils                     Relocations: /usr 
Version     : 2.0.11                            Vendor: MandrakeSoft
Release     : 5mdk                          Build Date: Sat 15 Sep 2001
01:16:46
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address@hidden jyp]$date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
Written by David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

Identical problem as in sh-utils 2.0

address@hidden jyp]$ zdump -c 2002 -v Australia/Sydney |grep 2001
Australia/Sydney  Sat Mar 24 15:59:59 2001 UTC = Sun Mar 25 02:59:59 2001
EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
Australia/Sydney  Sat Mar 24 16:00:00 2001 UTC = Sun Mar 25 02:00:00 2001
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/Sydney  Sat Oct 27 15:59:59 2001 UTC = Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2001
EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/Sydney  Sat Oct 27 16:00:00 2001 UTC = Sun Oct 28 03:00:00 2001
EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
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address@hidden jyp]$ date -d 'last friday'
Thu Oct 25 23:00:00 EST 2001
address@hidden jyp]$ 
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JYP

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Bob Proulx wrote:

> 
> > This is rather interesting:
> [...]
> > address@hidden jyp]$date --version
> > date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
> 
> If you are using date version 2.0 or earlier that is certainly
> possible.  A large number of bug fixes and improvements went into the
> sh-utils-2.0.11 around October 2000.  Please install a newer version of
> the code.  The test release versions at
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish
> are best.
> 
> Bob
>