Subject: invalid TZ and /bin/date

From: Donald Berry <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:24:08 -0400 (EDT)

If an invalid TZ argument is passed to /bin/date, it silently fails but prints the UTC result:
[dberry@dberry ~]$ TZ=EDT date -d @0
Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 EDT 1970
[dberry@dberry ~]$ TZ=foo date -d @0
Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 foo 1970

It works correctly if using no argument or a valid argument:
[dberry@dberry ~]$ date -d @0
Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969
[dberry@dberry ~]$ TZ=EST5EDT date -d @0
Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 EST 1969
[dberry@dberry ~]$ TZ=UTC date -d @0
Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 UTC 1970

[dberry@dberry ~]$ rpm -q coreutils
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.x86_64
[dberry@dberry ~]$ uname -a
Linux dberry.csb 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Nov 24 14:35:28 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[dberry@dberry ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.3 (Santiago)
[dberry@dberry ~]$ date
Thu Apr 18 16:23:46 EDT 2013

Donald Berry, RHCE
Technical Account Manager
Red Hat Canada Ltd.
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