Hello! I may have found a bug in the GNU date. I expected that the
following statements would give the same result:
date ; date -d '01/01/1970 utc '`date +%s`' secs'
But the results are off by an hour:
Wed May 16 12:38:31 EDT 2001
Wed May 16 13:38:31 EDT 2001
I haven't delved into the source code for date (I'm no expert programmer)
but I suspect that the problem may be because I'm starting with a date out
of daylight savings time (start of epoch) and adding a number of seconds to
arrive at a result within daylight savings time... somewhere it adds the
extra hour. I've worked out a workaround for my scripts, but it's a bit of
a kludge.
Is this a bug? If not, can you explain this unexpected behaviour?
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