GNU bug report logs - #6897
date -d '1991-04-14 +1 day' fails

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 李嘉鹏 <lijpbasin <at> 126.com>

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU>, "6897 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <6897 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Alan Curry <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org>, 李嘉鹏 <lijpbasin <at> 126.com>
Subject: bug#6897: date -d '1991-04-14 +1 day' fails
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:08:40 -0600

On 08/24/2010 01:23 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>    $ TZ=Pacific/Kwajalein date -d 1993-08-20
>    Sat Aug 21 00:00:00 MHT 1993
> 
>    $ date --version
>    date (GNU coreutils) 8.5
>    Packaged by Cygwin (8.5-2)
> Why?

Most likely, because cygwin is using a slightly different tzdata package
than Linux.

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