[debbugs-tracker] bug#26238: closed (core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:22:34 -0400 User-agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23)

After discussion on #guix, Ludovic and I decided to try grafting
coreutils to fix a bug in `date` that breaks converting between time
zones.

https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-03-24#T1333113

But, I'm not sure how to handle coreutils-final from (gnu packages
commencement).

Any advice?

0001-WIP-coreutils-Fix-a-time-zone-bug-in-date-8.26.patch
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#26238: core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 22:12:02 +0200 User-agent: Notmuch/0.24.1 (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/25.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

>> From 5be25413a76ca84c18e4f4174629af5fe6e87db1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 20:13:45 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add workaround for `date` regression in address@hidden
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>> See <https://bugs.gnu.org/23035> and <https://bugs.gnu.org/26238>.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils-8.27): New variable.
>> * gnu/system.scm (%base-packages): Use that instead of COREUTILS.
>
> Go for it!

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