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Minor deficiency in date(1) setting


From: BJerrick
Subject: Minor deficiency in date(1) setting
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 01:26:07 -0800

    There's a minor deficiency in setting the date with this form
of date-setting with date(1):

    % date MMDDhhmm

Between 01:00 and 02:00 at the end of daylight time period, the hour
is ambiguous.  A workaround is to use GMT:

    % env TZ=GMT date ...

Bruce Jerrick
Portland, Oregon, USA
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