Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 22:36:05 +0100, Thomas Hartman wrote:
>> Sometimes the following formulation works -- in a different repo, that
>> is -- but for the repo shown below, it doesn't work. The only
>> difference I see is that in the repo that does work the time zone is
>> CEST instead of CET. (Just a shot in the dark.)
>
> Hmm. This is an issue that we may never get around to fixing.
> The workaround is to use ISO 8601 dates and times, so
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp>darcs get --to-match='date "Fri Nov 28
>> 10:26:41 CET 2008"' /home/thartman/patch-shack/
>
> --to-match='date "2008-11-28 10:26:41+0100"'
GNU date users can exploit its -d switch, e.g.
$ date -d 'Fri Nov 28 10:26:41 CET 2008' -Iseconds
2008-11-28T20:26:41+1100
> Note the objection that the three letter abbreviations are ambiguous (!). I
> would be grateful if somebody could find an example.
Both Australia and the US have an Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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