Bug#271428: closed by Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> (Re: date: wrong timezone info)
reassign 271428 coreutils
thanks
martin f krafft a écrit :
> 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...
If you want an error message to be printed, that's not a glibc problem
anymore, it's a coreutils problem. Reassigning the bug.
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