Folks: Here's a cute one for you. This is being done on a RedHat 7.3 w/ patches, i386 system. 'uname -a' gives: Linux ahmler1.mail.eds.com 2.4.20-20.7smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 14:46:14 EDT 2003 i686 unknown
Normal behavior: $ date Fri Apr 23 12:37:15 EDT 2004 $ date --date=yesterday Thu Apr 22 12:37:19 EDT 2004 No surprise. However, go back in time to the day after the spring daylight savings time adjustment. Now we see something like... $ date Mon Apr 5 00:05:00 EDT 2004 $ date --date=yesterday Sat Apr 3 23:05:00 EST 2004 Surprise! Note: I haven't jimmied around a system to actually reproduce this. This is my surmise for the symptoms I have seen when a script that fired after midnight to do maintenance on "yesterday's" files produced anomalous results. The machines I have in other parts of the world (Germany and England for example did this on 29March) reacted in a similar fashion on their changeover dates. Bottom line? Time to put all these boxes on GMT and be done with this daylight savings nonsense! :-) Randy Diffenderfer _______________________________________________ Bug-sh-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-sh-utils
