Thanks for the report and patch.
That was fixed for the latest test release.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/sh-utils-2.0.11.tar.gz
Greg Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Jim, Paul, David, or whoever's in charge of date(1) these days:
|
| GNU sh-utils 2.0 broke date's --utc option (setting half); the TZ variable
| does not get set to UTC0 prior to calling posixtime(), somewhere in the
| vicinity of line 414. Hence "date --utc 0201015401.34" results in this:
|
| Thu Feb 1 01:54:34 PST 2001
|
| rather than this:
|
| Thu Feb 1 01:54:34 UTC 2001
|
| (And, of course, this is not just a display bug; the time really does get
| set 8 hours in the future.)
|
| This is the version of date(1) that ships in Slackware 7.1 and the current
| proto-7.2 distribution, btw (Patrick et al.).
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