I've been puzzled by date(1) giving weird results when setting TZ to values unknown by zoneinfo.
As far as: $ TZ=Fake date Tue Sep 27 14:06:32 Fake 2011 It would be more helpful if the command raised an error or warning about "unknown" timezones rather than giving random dates. It's particularly anonying when the same TZ _reported_ by the command isn't recognized in input: $ date Tue Sep 27 16:08:13 CEST 2011 $ TZ=CEST date Tue Sep 27 14:08:13 CEST 2011 Thanks for making a clock available for everyone, btw :) --strk; () Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer /\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html
