Re: problems with GNU date and missing timezone handling on several debian systems

[Paul Eggert]

"Joel N. Weber II" <address@hidden> writes:

> This might well be more of a glibc issue than a date issue, though;
> I'm not really sure.

Yes, that's correct.  Perhaps you could file a glibc bug.

> I also find it rather confusing that date will in some circumstances
> print PDT as the timezone, leading me to suspect that PDT is a valid
> value for the TZ variable when it apparently actually isn't:

You can even do something like this if you really want to be
confusing:

   $ date -u; TZ=UTC8 date; TZ=UTC-8 date
   Tue Jul 12 07:35:26 UTC 2005
   Mon Jul 11 23:35:26 UTC 2005
   Tue Jul 12 15:35:26 UTC 2005

This behavior we won't change, since POSIX requires it and it's
longstanding tradition.  Some people even rely on it, to backdate
their documents believe it or not.