Subject: Re: bug#9614: date ignoring wrong TZ values

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:19:22 +0200

Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]> writes:

> $ TZ=GB-Eire+1 date

A POSIX timezone name cannot have dashes.

> $ TZ=Japan+1 date

This is a well-formed POSIX timezone.

> $ TZ=Japan date

This is a non-POSIX timezone that happens to match an Olson timezone.

Andreas.

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