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bug#17600: Maybe a bug of `date`
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HoHo Zhao |
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bug#17600: Maybe a bug of `date` |
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Tue, 27 May 2014 11:17:38 +0800 |
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Thank you Bob. I got it clear.
On 2014/5/27 10:55, Bob Proulx wrote:
> HoHo Zhao wrote:
>> Wrong:
>> $ TZ=UTC date -d "15:00 CST" (China Standard Time)
>> Mon May 26 21:00:00 UTC 2014
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>> So the problem is with "CST" in the date STRING.
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> CST in the above is being interpreted as US Central Standard Time.
> For Central Standard Time it is correct.
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> CST is one of the ambiguous timezones that Pádraig referred to. This
> is one of the reasons "date -R" with the unambiguous numeric timezones
> is the better output format.
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> Bob
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HoHo Zhao
Regional IT Support
Red Hat Greater China