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:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ date -d 'Sun May 2 16:20:49 CEST 1999'
Sun May 2 17:20:49 CEST 1999
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ 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
