Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
On my machine I get this: $ date -d 'Sun May 2 16:20:49 CEST 1999' Sun May 2 16:20:49 BST 1999 $ date -d 'Sun May 2 16:20:49 CET 1999' Sun May 2 16:20:49 BST 1999 Let's try something different: $ date -d 'Sun Jan 2 16:20:49 CEST 1999' Sat Jan 2 15:20:49 GMT 1999 $ date -d 'Sun Jan 2 16:20:49 CET 1999' Sat Jan 2 15:20:49 GMT 1999 Interesting. > 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? Time for bed. -- I consume, therefore I am
