Package: tzdata Version: 2016f-0+deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I was attempting to write a script something like a world clock to help schedule a task in six time zones. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? Steps to reproduce: # the alias isn't necessary, but it simplifies the demonstration alias lax="TZ='America/Los_Angeles' date --date=@1469558444 '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z'" alias syd="TZ='Australia/Sydney' date --date=@1469558444 '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z'" lax syd date --date "$( lax )" date --date "$( syd )" bug symptom: 2016-07-26 11:40 PDT 2016-07-27 04:40 AEST Tue Jul 26 11:40:00 PDT 2016 date: invalid date ‘2016-07-27 04:40 AEST’ expected behavior: 2016-07-26 11:40 PDT 2016-07-27 04:40 EST Tue Jul 26 11:40:00 PDT 2016 Wed Jul 27 02:40:00 PDT 2016 -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tzdata depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.56 tzdata recommends no packages. tzdata suggests no packages. -- debconf information: tzdata/Zones/Europe: tzdata/Zones/SystemV: tzdata/Zones/Australia: tzdata/Zones/US: * tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC * tzdata/Zones/America: Los_Angeles tzdata/Zones/Antarctica: tzdata/Zones/Atlantic: tzdata/Zones/Africa: tzdata/Zones/Arctic: tzdata/Zones/Indian: tzdata/Zones/Asia: tzdata/Zones/Pacific: * tzdata/Areas: America
