Your message dated Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:34:34 -0400
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and subject line Re: coreutils: date: Bogus TZ value printed verbatim in output
even though interpreted as UTC
has caused the Debian Bug report #306821,
regarding coreutils: date: Bogus TZ value printed verbatim in output even
though interpreted as UTC
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
Severity: minor
'date' produces erroneous output when TZ is set incorrectly.
This works correctly:
$ TZ=GMT date
Thu Apr 28 17:45:35 GMT 2005
$ TZ=CET date
Thu Apr 28 19:45:38 CEST 2005
This is incorrect, but it looks valid:
$ TZ=CEST date
Thu Apr 28 17:45:40 CEST 2005
"FOOBAR" should probably be "UCT":
$ TZ=FOOBAR date
Thu Apr 28 17:45:44 FOOBAR 2005
For reference:
$ TZ="" date
Thu Apr 28 17:45:49 UCT 2005
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: hppa (parisc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc3-pa1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.23-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
This was changed in glibc at some point, no longer present as of lenny:
env TZ=FOOBAR date
Thu Jun 4 01:28:00 UTC 2009
Mike Stone
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