GNU bug report logs - #18715
mdate-sh output is timezone dependant triggering rebuilds

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Package: automake;

Reported by: "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" <klondike <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 18714

Done: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 18715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" <klondike <at> gentoo.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, 18715 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18715: mdate-sh output is timezone dependant triggering
 rebuilds
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:53:17 +0200

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El 14/10/14 13:58, Eric Blake escribió:
> Thanks for the report. Yes, we should fix mdate-sh to output results
> in UTC, if it is easy to write portable shell to normalize dates (with
> GNU date it is easy, but mdate-sh has to run on systems that lack GNU
> date). 
Well the suggested workaround for now is setting the TZ variable to UTC,
I'm not sure how well that'd work though.


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