Public bug reported: at doesn't handle correctly UTC date. My timezone is CEST which is UTC+1 plus one more hour for daylight saving. That make is two hours more than UTC. This is what happens when I try to run an at task specifying the date as UTC.
$ date Sun Sep 20 17:07:42 CEST 2009 $ date -u Sun Sep 20 15:07:44 UTC 2009 $ at 1510 UTC 20 SEP 2009 at: refusing to create job destined in the past Actually 15:10 UTC is more than two minutes in the future. $ at 1610 UTC 20 SEP 2009 works. I downloaded the source package with apt-get source at and found the bug in the parsetime.y file. I checked this both on a 8.10 and on a 9.04 machine and got the same results. I discovered that a bug for this has already been opened to Debian in 2006 for this very same version of the at package (3.1.10) and a patch has been submitted by Håkon Stordahl (I think he's a maintainer). I tried it and it works for me so I attach it to this message. Refer to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364975 for the details. Unfortunately it seems that the patch didn't make it yet in any released package because a debian 5 server of mine has the same package version and the same bug. It could be possible to apply it to the next Ubuntu release? Distribution and package info: For Ubuntu 8.10 $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10 $ apt-cache policy at at: Installed: 3.1.10.1ubuntu3 Candidate: 3.1.10.1ubuntu3 Version table: *** 3.1.10.1ubuntu3 0 500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Despite package number 3.1.10 "at -V" reports "at version 3.1.9" For Ubuntu 9.04 $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 8.10 Release: 8.10 $ apt-cache policy at at: Installed: 3.1.10.2ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.1.10.2ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.1.10.2ubuntu2 0 500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status "at -V" also reports "at version 3.1.9" here. ** Affects: at (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- at command ignores savings time when given UTC time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
