Hello,
I've noticed a behavior of the 'date' utility as a result of the DST change-over, and was wondering whether this is "expected behavior" or whether this is a problem, so I'm inquiring whether anyone else has noticed this. During the StandardTime-DaylightTime changeover, the timeZone was correctly changed and the time reported by 'date' was correct during the change-over, however, it seems to be reporting the wrong day when using syntax to produce a date string using 'date -d '-X day' +%m/%d/%Y', where X is the number of days behind the change-over from Standard Time to Daylight Savings. i.e. For the EST to EDT changeover, If the current time is set to Monday Mar 9th, 00:30, then: date -d '-0 day' +%m/%d/%Y reports 03/09/2009 (as it should) date -d '-1 day' +%m/%d/%Y reports 03/07/2009 (one day off) If I set the time to Monday Mar 9th, 01:30 hours and do the same calculation, then it reports the correct day on both calculations. Tks -- pz _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
