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Re: Oddity or bug in GNU date installation?
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Georg Bauhaus |
Subject: |
Re: Oddity or bug in GNU date installation? |
Date: |
Thu, 06 May 2010 17:04:24 +0200 |
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On 05.05.10 16:33, Eric Blake wrote:
> [bug-coreutils would have been the better choice to send this to, given
> 'date --help' output]
>
>> ... (Or is it a summer time issue?
>
> Yes, it's a daylight savings issue. From the coreutils FAQ:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e
>
>> $ date --version
>> date (GNU coreutils) 5.93
>> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Wow - that's five years old. We've fixed a number of bugs in date and
> other coreutils in the meantime; you should seriously consider upgrading
> to 8.5.
Thank you all. The administrator has meanwhile installed
a patched version.
BTW, setting TZ to just anything including the empty string
also changes behavior (of that old version).
--
Georg Bauhaus