"Joel N. Weber II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This might well be more of a glibc issue than a date issue, though; > I'm not really sure.
Yes, that's correct. Perhaps you could file a glibc bug. > I also find it rather confusing that date will in some circumstances > print PDT as the timezone, leading me to suspect that PDT is a valid > value for the TZ variable when it apparently actually isn't: You can even do something like this if you really want to be confusing: $ date -u; TZ=UTC8 date; TZ=UTC-8 date Tue Jul 12 07:35:26 UTC 2005 Mon Jul 11 23:35:26 UTC 2005 Tue Jul 12 15:35:26 UTC 2005 This behavior we won't change, since POSIX requires it and it's longstanding tradition. Some people even rely on it, to backdate their documents believe it or not. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
