bug#56524: doc: timezone offset conversion/info

On 7/12/22 15:57, Karl Berry wrote: $ TZ=UTC-4 date -d 'TZ="UTC" 2022-07-24 15:00' This doesn't mean what you want, because TZ=UTC-4 means "My time zone is abbreviated 'UTC', and it's four hours east of Greenwich" which is not a useful setting. You're not the first person to run afoul of P

bug#56524: doc: timezone offset conversion/info

Suppose I have a date in UTC, and I want to "convert" it to a given UTC offset, say UTC-4. Based on the date --help msg and examples, etc., I was under the impression that the idiom is TZ= date -d 'TZ="" ' Thus, in my case: $ TZ=UTC-4 date -d 'TZ="UTC" 2022-07-24 15:00' The output is: Sun Jul

bug#56520: Security vulnerabilities at coreutils version for CentOS 7.9

On 12/07/2022 13:43, Meirav Rath via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: Hello, My name is Meirav Rath, I'm a software developer and security champion at Imperva. As part of our effort to map security risks in our products I've been scanning our 3rd party rpms for vulnerabilities. It looks like c

bug#56520: Security vulnerabilities at coreutils version for CentOS 7.9

On 7/12/22 05:43, Meirav Rath via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: It looks like coreutils available rpm for CentOS 7.9 (8.22) has the vulnerability CVE-2017-18018. When can we expect an updated RPM of a more advanced version with fixes for this

bug#56520: Security vulnerabilities at coreutils version for CentOS 7.9

Hello, My name is Meirav Rath, I'm a software developer and security champion at Imperva. As part of our effort to map security risks in our products I've been scanning our 3rd party rpms for vulnerabilities. It looks like coreutils available rpm for CentOS 7.9 (8.22) has the vulnerability CVE