Subject: bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:52:22 +0200

Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 09/27/2011 03:09 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>> I've been puzzled by date(1) giving weird results
>> when setting TZ to values unknown by zoneinfo.
>> 
>> As far as:
>> 
>>  $ TZ=Fake date
>>  Tue Sep 27 14:06:32 Fake 2011
>
> Yes, that is per POSIX.

This is not a POSIX format, since it lacks the offset.

Andreas.

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