Hey, what is this!?

[Torsten Landschoff <t.landschoff@gmx.net>]

Hi Wichert, Vincent, 

I was just working on the util-linux package to get the rc bugs fixed. 
I was also looking at some old bugs when I stumbled across this:

> Observe:
>
> bash-2.02# hwclock --utc --set --date='Sun May  2 16:20:49 CEST 1999'
> bash-2.02# hwclock --utc --show
> Sun May  2 17:20:54 1999  -0.915558 seconds
>
> Somehow that doesn't strike me as correct behaviour..
>
> Wichert.

Maybe even more interesting is this:

torsten@pulsar:~ $ date -d 'Sun May  2 16:20:49 CEST 1999'
Sun May  2 17:20:49 CEST 1999
torsten@pulsar:~ $ date -d 'Sun May  2 16:20:49 CET 1999'
Sun May  2 17:20:49 CEST 1999

It seems that date ignores the daylight saving flag of the timezone. 
I don't know why hwclock and date share the same behaviour but I don't 
want to check now as I have to go to bed...

What do you think?

    Torsten