On 7.5.2023 14:52, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Mai 07 2023, Eiríkur Hjartarson via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
Now the "bug":
It's not a bug.
Thanks for the explanation, in my defense, I did read the date info page
and the FAQ at https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq
On 5/7/23 07:52, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Thus TZ=UTC+2 means two hours before UTC.
Yes, and this mistake seems to be common enough that I installed the
attached patch into Gnulib, so that it'll propagate into the Coreutils
manual, which should help people who read the 'date' documentation
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On Mai 07 2023, Eiríkur Hjartarson via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
> Now the "bug":
It's not a bug.
> $ TZ=Europe/Riga date --iso-8601=minutes -d "2024-01-01T00:00-05:00"
> 2024-01-01T07:00+02:00
>
> $ TZ=UTC+2 date --iso-8601=minutes -d "2024-01-01T00:00-05:00"
> 2023-01-01T03:00-02:00
>
>
Hi,
I'm on Fedora-38 GNU/Linux and the version string of 'date' is "date
(GNU coreutils) 9.1".
$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 40 jan 11 2022 /etc/localtime ->
../usr/share/zoneinfo/Atlantic/Reykjavik
Now the "bug":
$ TZ=Europe/Riga date --iso-8601=minutes -d "2024-01-01T00
