Re: 'date' displays wrong time?

[Bob Proulx]

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