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Re: date(1) in stretch and buster



On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 09 April 2019 09:38:43 Vincent Lefevre wrote:

On 2019-04-08 18:26:23 +0300, Reco wrote:
> stretch$ TZ=UTC date
> Mon Apr  8 15:22:02 UTC 2019
> buster$ TZ=UTC date
> Mon 08 Apr 2019 03:22:04 PM UTC

This is unrelated to your issue, but note that the correct TZ string
for UTC is "UTC0", not "UTC". See


http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.htm
l

Yikes. Can that be actually put into English?

I've read thru it, and the only thing I can come away is that 'if UTC,
then offset is required, and it can be anything from -23 to +23,
including your example 0 meaning no offset from UTC.

As it now reads, theres a ton of ambiguity that needs further
clarification.

There's a discrepency between the historic posix definition of the TZ environment variable, and how it works on a modern system. There's an official workaround that I've never actually seen used in the wild. It doesn't matter in practice.

Mike Stone


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