Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > date --version reports 2.0. You may have better results with the latest test release. See below. ... | However, I think you have uncovered a different bug. | | date -u -s 1401 | Wed Apr 18 20:01:00 UTC 2001 | date -u -s '1401 UTC' | Wed Apr 18 14:01:00 UTC 2001 Thanks to both of you for the reports. Bob, what version of date are you using? And on what type of system? Using the latest test release ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/sh-utils-2.0.11.tar.gz on a Linux system with libc-2.2.2, I don't see a problem: $ date +%z +0200 $ date -u -s 1401 2> /dev/null Sat Apr 21 14:01:00 UTC 2001 $ date -u -s '1401 UTC' 2> /dev/null Sat Apr 21 14:01:00 UTC 2001 | I think those two should work exactly the same. But perhaps I am | confused as well. The first case assumes 1401 is MDT and converts it | to UTC before setting and printing. I think date should assume 1401 | is UTC as in the second case. ... _______________________________________________ Bug-sh-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-sh-utils
