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To: "Philip Rowlands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Richard Narum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2007 8:52:31 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
Subject: Re: bug-coreutils date command
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TZ=CST6CDT is not a standard setting. On some hosts, it consults the
tz database and will give you "generic" Central Time rules. On others
it will consult a hardwired internal algorithm and will likely mess up.
You'd be better off using a standard zoneinfo setting like
TZ='America/Chicago'.
This
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According to Philip Rowlands on 12/3/2007 6:23 PM:
>> I am currently running GNU coreutils 6.9 with Cygwin on Windows XP
>> version "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57".
>
> What version of the tzcode package do you have, if any?
> /var/
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Richard Narum wrote:
I'm not sure if you would call this a bug or not but I'm wondering why
the GNU date command doesn't have the correct time adjustment for
daylight savings from years past on its output when using an input
date string to generate its output.
I am curren
