bug#43828: invalid date converting from UTC, near DST

2020-10-06 Thread Paul Eggert
On 10/6/20 4:24 AM, Martin Fido wrote: I have version 8.25: Seems to have been fixed by coreutils 8.30: $ TZ='Australia/Sydney' date -d '2020-10-04T02:00:00Z' Sun 04 Oct 2020 01:00:00 PM AEDT

bug#43828: invalid date converting from UTC, near DST

2020-10-06 Thread Martin Fido
Hi, I seem to have found a bug in the date utility, converting from UTC to Sydney time. It returns invalid date for what should be perfectly valid: $ TZ='Australia/Sydney' date -d '2020-10-04T02:00:00Z' date: invalid date ‘2020-10-04T02:00:00Z’ $ TZ='Australia/Sydney' date -d