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Bug#149902: marked as done (strftime("%Z") uses ambiguous timezone names)

Your message dated Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:52:58 -0700
with message-id <53E9C7DA.7070406@cs.ucla.edu>
and subject line Re:  strftime("%Z") uses ambiguous timezone names
has caused the Debian Bug report #95254,
regarding strftime("%Z") uses ambiguous timezone names
to be marked as done.

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Package: shellutils
Version: 2.0.11-11
Severity: normal


The timezones EST and CST are somewhat ambiguous. When using
Australia/Sydney, displaying the current time produces:

$ date
Fri Jun 14 00:36:08 EST 2002

It would be nicer if it displayed AEST and ACST for the australian
timezones. At the very least it should accept them for input.

$ date --date="Jun 14 00:36:08 AEST 2002"
date: invalid date `Jun 14 00:36:08 AEST 2002'

Or, put another way:

$ date +%Z
EST
$ date +%z
+1000
$ TZ=EST date +%Z
EST
$ TZ=EST date +%z
-0500


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vali 2.4.17 #3 Wed Feb 20 22:24:35 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages shellutils depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2.5-5     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  login                        20000902-12 System login tools

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As this bug is fixed in Debian sid now, I'm marking it as done.

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