tag 17600 notabug close 17600 stop On 05/26/2014 09:45 AM, HoHo Zhao wrote: > Hi team, > > I found this "bug" maybe I am lazy to look through the info document. > > Correct: > $ TZ=UTC date -d "15:00 BST" > Mon May 26 14:00:00 UTC 2014 > > Correct: > $ TZ=UTC date -d "15:00 EST" > Mon May 26 20:00:00 UTC 2014 > > Correct: > $ TZ=UTC date -d "15:00 JST" (Japan Standard Time) > Mon May 26 06:00:00 UTC 2014 > > Wrong: > $ TZ=UTC date -d "15:00 CST" (China Standard Time) > Mon May 26 21:00:00 UTC 2014 > > So the problem is with "CST" in the date STRING. > > Thanks,
I think this is due to the ambiguity of CST. You're better using unambiguous location based zones TZ=UTC date -d 'TZ="Asia/Chongqing" 15:00' More details at http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/linux_timezones/ thanks, Pádraig.