bug#30795: Issue with date command and EDT

[Jared Chagnon]

Forgot to include this:

OS Release:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9 (Santiago)

Packages installed:
tzdata-2018c-1.el6.noarch
coreutils-8.4-46.0.1.el6.x86_64
coreutils-libs-8.4-46.0.1.el6.x86_64

Jared Chagnon
Systems Engineering Manager
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On Mar 13, 2018, at 9:10 AM, Jared Chagnon 
<address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:

Please see the issue below:

I setup a test script:

#/bin/bash

echo "`date`"
echo "`date +%z`"

currentdate=`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`
echo "current date: $currentdate"

olddate=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S" --date='4 days ago'`
echo "old date 4 days ago: $olddate”

————— Output —————

./datetest.sh
Tue Mar 13 09:08:34 EDT 2018
-0400
current date: 20180313_090834
old date 4 days ago: 20180309_080834

————— Notes ——————

My local time zone is America\New_York.  Please note the date modification is 
not using EDT and resulting in EST.

Jared Chagnon
Systems Engineering Manager
P:  781.292.6033
M:  508.566.0081
<mailto:address@hidden>address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>
www.enservio.com<http://www.enservio.com/>

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