GNU bug report logs - #17600
Maybe a bug of `date`

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: HoHo Zhao <hzhao <at> redhat.com>

Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 15:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: HoHo Zhao <hzhao <at> redhat.com>, 17600 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17600: Maybe a bug of `date`
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:55:49 -0600

HoHo Zhao wrote:
> Wrong:
> 	$ TZ=UTC date -d "15:00 CST"   (China Standard Time)
> 	Mon May 26 21:00:00 UTC 2014
> 
> So the problem is with "CST" in the date STRING.

CST in the above is being interpreted as US Central Standard Time.
For Central Standard Time it is correct.

CST is one of the ambiguous timezones that Pádraig referred to.  This
is one of the reasons "date -R" with the unambiguous numeric timezones
is the better output format.

Bob
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