as reported by Bertrand Jacquin, this crashes: $ date -d 'TZ="America/Los_Angeles" "00:00 + 1 hour"' Segmentation fault (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff7ab1014 in __GI___libc_free (mem=0x7fffffffc8b0) at malloc.c:2942 #1 0x0000000000406730 in parse_datetime (result=result@entry=0x7fffffffcab0, p=, p@entry=0x7fffffffd04a "TZ=\"America/Los_Angeles\" \"00:00 + 1 hour\"", now=, now @entry=0x0) at ./lib/parse-datetime.y:1307 #2 0x00000000004023c7 in main (argc=0x3, argv=0x7fffffffcc68) at src/date.c:522 that's 15fca2a02e38d69915c52ef41eee3c7d52b67f3e i happened to have already built, but seems to reproduce easily across older versions. -mike