Subject: bug#79261: coreutils 9.7 "date -u" - timezone offset is in the wrong direction

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:54:36 -0700

On 8/26/25 08:43, James Feeney wrote:
> Your definition of "longstanding" seems a bit disingenuous, since this change, from the default POSIX `date -u` 24 hour format to the 12 hour format, was made in 2020

? No it wasn't. I just now ran 'date -u' from the coreutils 5.93 (2005) 
shipped with Solaris 10, and it uses 12 hour format when run in a locale 
specifying that format. And I'm sure this behavior predates 2005.