"Mike 'Mike' Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A little bit of trial-and-error and I find that the anomaly is limited to > between 6pm, 23 Jun 1968 GMT and 2am, 31 Oct 1971:
Good detective work. This is a bug that stems from the fact that Great Britain was at UTC+1 for that entire period. The bug is triggered if your local time zone is British time (e.g., TZ='Europe/London'), which probably explains why Andreas Schwab didn't reproduce it in Nuremburg. The bug is fixed in coreutils CVS. For coreutils 5.3.0 and earlier, a simple workaround is to set TZ='UTC0' in the environment before invoking "date". Also, as Andreas mentioned, the syntax "date [EMAIL PROTECTED]" is more reliable, if your coreutils version is sufficiently new to support it (5.3.0 or later). _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
