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Bug#271428: closed by Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> (Re: date: wrong timezone info)



also sprach Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> [2008.07.07.1748 +0200]:
> Sorry but I don't understand why you reopened this bug. Before the
> output was:
> 
> (etch)[volta:~]$ TZ=wrongtimezone date
> Mon Jul  7 15:45:25 wrongtimezone 2008
> 
> Now it is:
> 
> (sid)[volta:~]$ TZ=wrongtimezone date
> Mon Jul  7 15:47:13 UTC 2008
> 
> This is exactly what you asked in the bug report:

You are right, I misremembered. I guess what I was also asking
though was that there should be a warning if the timezone wasn't
found.

Anyway, this is a lot better than before, but it did cause problems
today, when we looked for America/NewYork instead of New_York and
were 4 hours off, not noticing the UTC in there...

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