Hi, everyone. I'm confused by the behavior in the `date` command.
>[guicho coreutils]$ TZ='Asia/Tokyo' src/date -R --date="2014/1/1" >Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0900 >[guicho coreutils]$ TZ='UTC+9' src/date -R --date="2014/1/1" >Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0900 >[guicho coreutils]$ TZ='America/Los_Angeles' src/date -R --date="2014/1/1" >Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0800 >[guicho coreutils]$ TZ='UTC-8' src/date -R --date="2014/1/1" >Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0800 Assuming that I live in Japan and I use JST (Japan Standard Time) which is identical to (UTC+9)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Standard_Time], this is not what I expected. The third and fourth case, in PST=US/LA, seems odd as well. Is this a bug or the intended behavior? The machine is running on ubuntu linux 12.04 and I used the latest master branch. BTW, I found it while I was writing a script that helps me submitting my paper in time, which get the time in UTC-12. Some of you may know, conference paper deadlines are sometimes defined with UTC-12 so that: "If you are in time anywhere on the world, you are in time. " -- Masataro Asai Department of General Systems Studies Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo Tel: (81)-44-856-9009 Twitter/github id: guicho271828
