tag 79261 notabug close 79261 stop On 17/08/2025 17:02, James Feeney via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
Arch Linux coreutils 9.7-1$ timedatectl;date;date -u Local time: Sun 2025-08-17 09:50:24 MDT Universal time: Sun 2025-08-17 15:50:24 UTC RTC time: Sun 2025-08-17 15:50:24 Time zone: US/Mountain (MDT, -0600) System clock synchronized: yes NTP service: active RTC in local TZ: no Sun Aug 17 09:50:24 AM MDT 2025 Sun Aug 17 03:50:24 PM UTC 2025 `timedatectl` is correct. `date` is correct. `date -u` is off by 2x the timezone offset, showing UTC as 6 hours earlier, which is wrong, instead of 6 hours later, which is correct.
I think you missed the "PM" in the output above. cheers, Pádraig
