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core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 26238 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26238: core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 23:37:36 +0200

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Leo!
>
> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:
>>
>>> From 466a0ebad18ee5e38f280acf19ab19aadffa2206 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
>>> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:18:21 -0400
>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: coreutils: Fix a time-zone bug in date 8.26.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils)[replacement]: New field.
>>> (coreutils/fixed): New variable.
>>> (coreutils-minimal)[source]: Use the source of coreutils/fixed.
>>> * gnu/packages/commencement.scm (coreutils-final)[replacement]: New field.
>>> * gnu/packages/patches/coreutils-fix-time-zone-conversion.patch: New file.
>>> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
>>
>> LGTM, thanks!
>
> Was there anything wrong with this patch?  Otherwise I still think it’s
> worth applying to ‘master’.

It depends on this gnulib patch, which does not apply cleanly and needs
a rather difficult backport:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=4e6e16b3f43ce96302b1e52e48730c1f15e18c14

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