Re: 'date' displays wrong time?

[Thomas Koeller]

Hi Bob,

I built coreutils-4.5.6 and tried the version of 'date'
included with that. Here's what it says:

~/build/gnu/alpha/coreutils-4.5.6/src $ ./date; ./date -u; perl -e 'print 
scalar(localtime(time())), "\n";'
Fre Feb  7 23:57:44 CET 2003
Fre Feb  7 22:58:06 UTC 2003
Fri Feb  7 23:57:44 2003

As both date and perl agree on the local time, it is probably
not a problem caused by date. Maybe it's a bug within
glibc?

Thomas



On Friday, 7. Februar 2003 04:49, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Thomas Koeller wrote:
> > ~/build/gnu/sh-utils-2.0 $ date -u; date
> > Son Feb  2 17:13:49 UTC 2003
> > Son Feb  2 18:13:27 CET 2003
>
> That is indeed very bizarre.  I cannot imagine a situation that would
> create such behavior.  Can we get a second opinion?  Try this:
>
>   date -u; date;perl -e 'print scalar(localtime(time())), "\n";'
>
> > Is this a bug, or am I missing something? In case it
> > matters, I am running Linux kernel version 2.4.20,
> > glibc-2.3.1, date is from sh-utils-2.0:
> >
> > ~/build/gnu/sh-utils-2.0 $ date --version
> > date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
>
> Version 2.0 is rather old.  But regardless I have not seen anyone
> report such behavior with that version.
>
> If you would be so kind as to test against the current version of date
> it would probably help.  The latest release of coreutils is here:
>
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/
>
> Bob