On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:52:22PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > > > On 09/27/2011 03:09 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote: > >> I've been puzzled by date(1) giving weird results > >> when setting TZ to values unknown by zoneinfo. > >> > >> As far as: > >> > >> $ TZ=Fake date > >> Tue Sep 27 14:06:32 Fake 2011 > > > > Yes, that is per POSIX. > > This is not a POSIX format, since it lacks the offset.
A warning/error message with hint on how to correctly form the string would be very friendly for users. --strk; () Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer /\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html
