On Mai 07 2023, Eiríkur Hjartarson via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: > Now the "bug":
It's not a bug. > $ TZ=Europe/Riga date --iso-8601=minutes -d "2024-01-01T00:00-05:00" > 2024-01-01T07:00+02:00 > > $ TZ=UTC+2 date --iso-8601=minutes -d "2024-01-01T00:00-05:00" > 2023-01-01T03:00-02:00 > > That is: the first command gives me the time and date in Riga when it's > midnight at new year's eve in New York. > > The second command should do the same but instead gives the time in > Godthab Greenland. That's not how TZ works. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html says about the offset: Indicates the value added to the local time to arrive at Coordinated Universal Time. ... If preceded by a '-', the timezone shall be east of the Prime Meridian; otherwise, it shall be west (which may be indicated by an optional preceding '+' ). Thus TZ=UTC+2 means two hours before UTC. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
