Hello Torsten, Hi all, Here is what the initial submitter of the bug report wrote :
"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." And Torsten found this : "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..." I had a look to the info pages of date. In the node `Timezone item', one can't find the correction for `CEST' : this isn't defined. Don't you think that the problem is simply here ? If this is the case, isn't it a documentation issue ? Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE [EMAIL PROTECTED] website : http://www.polynum.com
