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bug in date / coreutils

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: jensbaltrusch <at> vfemail.net
Subject: bug#37060: closed (Re: bug#37060: bug in date / coreutils)
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 05:21:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#37060: bug in date / coreutils

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jens Baltrusch <jensbaltrusch <at> vfemail.net>
Cc: 37060-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37060: bug in date / coreutils
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 22:19:59 -0700

I think that bug was fixed in 2017, and your coreutils version 8.23 predates the 
fix. I suggest upgrading to the current version (8.31) of coreutils, as 8.23 is 
pretty old anyway.

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From: jensbaltrusch <at> vfemail.net
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug in date / coreutils
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 03:32:58 +0000

Hi,

I believe there is a bug in the date utility.

My system is set to Berlin time, now daylight saving time.

When I put in

  date --date='TZ="Europe/Berlin" now'

I get correctly

  Sat 17 Aug 05:11:18 CEST 2019

However, putting in

  date --date='TZ="America/Los_Angeles" now'

yields

  Sat 17 Aug 14:12:03 CEST 2019

which is nonsense. Also, putting in

  date --date='TZ="Asia/Shanghai" now'

giving

  Fri 16 Aug 23:13:36 CEST 2019

which is definitely wrong, as I am currently in China where the sun is  
up and shining.



I get from date --version the following:


date (GNU coreutils) 8.23
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie.


My system is

Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u1 (2017-02-22)  
x86_64 GNU/Linux


I get the same kind of error using 'today' instead of 'now', or  
'tomorrow', '1 hour ago', etc.

In case you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best,
Jens Baltrusch

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