Re: Bug in GNU date ??

[MUTTON, PETER]

Hi Paul,

You are right, I was thinking of it checking the timezone db to see
what timezone I'm in when I'm actually specifying it in the date
itself.....

Your 2nd suggestion is excellent, I didn't think of doing it that
way.....

Duh !!  lateral thinking

Thanks

Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> "MUTTON, PETER" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >     #> /usr/local/bin/date -u -d "Sat Apr  3 16:42:28 EDT 2004"
> >     Sat Apr  3 20:42:28 UTC 2004
> >
> >                ^^ should be 21 as we moved to Daylight Saving time
> >                   on Apr 4
> 
> I don't see any bug there.  The -d operand specifies EDT, so GNU date
> assumes that you meant Eastern Daylight Time.
> 
> Here's how to get the behavior that you prefer:
> 
> $ /usr/local/bin/date -u -d "Sat Apr  3 16:42:28 EST 2004"
> Sat Apr  3 21:42:28 UTC 2004
> 
> Or better yet, since alphabetic time zone abbreviations aren't
> standardized:
> 
> $ /usr/local/bin/date -u -d "Sat Apr  3 16:42:28 -0500 2004"
> Sat Apr  3 21:42:28 UTC 2004

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