On 08/24/2010 15:09, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/24/2010 01:23 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: >> $ TZ=Pacific/Kwajalein date -d 1993-08-20 >> Sat Aug 21 00:00:00 MHT 1993 >> >> $ date --version >> date (GNU coreutils) 8.5 >> Packaged by Cygwin (8.5-2) >> Why? > >Most likely, because cygwin is using a slightly different tzdata package >than Linux.
SLES-10.3> /usr/sbin/zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein -9223372036854775808 = NULL /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein -9223372036854689408 = NULL /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Mon Dec 31 12:50:39 1900 UTC = Mon Dec 31 23:59:59 1900 LMT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Mon Dec 31 12:50:40 1900 UTC = Mon Dec 31 23:50:40 1900 MHT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Tue Sep 30 12:59:59 1969 UTC = Tue Sep 30 23:59:59 1969 MHT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Tue Sep 30 13:00:00 1969 UTC = Tue Sep 30 01:00:00 1969 KWAT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Fri Aug 20 11:59:59 1993 UTC = Thu Aug 19 23:59:59 1993 KWAT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Fri Aug 20 12:00:00 1993 UTC = Sat Aug 21 00:00:00 1993 MHT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein 9223372036854689407 = NULL /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein 9223372036854775807 = NULL Cygwin> /usr/sbin/zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 07:45:52 1901 MHT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sun Dec 15 07:45:52 1901 MHT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Tue Sep 30 12:59:59 1969 UTC = Tue Sep 30 23:59:59 1969 MHT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Tue Sep 30 13:00:00 1969 UTC = Tue Sep 30 01:00:00 1969 KWAT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Fri Aug 20 11:59:59 1993 UTC = Thu Aug 19 23:59:59 1993 KWAT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Fri Aug 20 12:00:00 1993 UTC = Sat Aug 21 00:00:00 1993 MHT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 15:14:07 2038 MHT isdst=0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Kwajalein Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 15:14:07 2038 MHT isdst=0 Looks pretty much the same to me for the 1993 entries ... Have a nice day, Berny
