Re: bug date

[Bob Proulx]

ulima wrote:
> a unix-like implementatin shoult have UYST implemented when TZ 
> 'America/Montevideo' is available and set to UYST! 

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There isn't anything we can do about it in coreutils regarding date.
Coreutils date will simply use the glibc implementation which relies
upon the installed tzdata files.

Bob

ulima wrote:
> Hi, may be it's defined, but a
>
>>> % un uli /home/uli 1 } date
>>> Sat Mar 13 19:26:28 CET 2010
>>> % un uli /home/uli 4 } setenv TZ UYST
>>> % un uli /home/uli 5 } date
>>> Sat Mar 13 18:26:52 UYST 2010
>
> looks like Mircosoft (it changes 1 h tu UTC ;-()
>
> a unix-like implementatin shoult have UYST implemented when TZ 
> 'America/Montevideo' is available and set to UYST! 
>
> uli