From: "Eiríkur Hjartarson via GNU coreutils Bug Reports" <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>
To: 63349@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63349: Bug in date when using UTC/GMT timeszones in the TZ variable
Date: Sun, 7 May 2023 13:28:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b9edd96-76ce-234f-2500-0d46b2e0c531@inan.is> (raw)
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 "2024-01-01T00:00-05:00"
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
That is: the first command gives me the time and date in Riga when it's
midnight at new year's eve in New York.
The second command should do the same but instead gives the time in
Godthab Greenland.
$ TZ=America/Godthab date -d "2024-01-01T00:00-05:00" --iso-8601=minutes
2024-01-01T03:00-02:00
It seems to me that the sign in the timezone variable could be simply
reversed.
Regards,
--
Eiríkur
next reply other threads:[~2023-05-07 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-07 13:28 Eiríkur Hjartarson via GNU coreutils Bug Reports [this message]
2023-05-07 14:52 ` bug#63349: Bug in date when using UTC/GMT timeszones in the TZ variable Andreas Schwab
2023-05-07 16:36 ` Paul Eggert
2023-05-07 16:58 ` Eiríkur Hjartarson via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
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