On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:40:21 -0600, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> Sebastian Luque wrote: >> $ echo '"2012-03-11 02:00:00"' | gawk -f test.awk 2012-03-11 03:00:00 >> ... Daylight savings for my local time zone (Central Time) started >> on 2012-03-11. Time is not interpreted correctly for the second hour >> of the day when daylight savings starts. > Please state your canonical timezone? Central Time by itself is > ambiguous. But I can guess. > Note that 2012-03-11 02:00:00 is an invalid date in Central time. > There is no correct interpretation possible. Or perhaps the only > correct interpretation would be to throw an exception error. > $ TZ=US/Central date -R -d '2012-03-11 02:00:00' date: invalid date > `2012-03-11 02:00:00' > What should awk do with invalid dates? Should it report them as > invalid as gnu date does? Probably. > See this useful reference for coreutils date. (Of course I am biased > about its usefulness. :-) > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e Yes, I totally agree. We were discussing this in the awk newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.awk/browse_thread/thread/1e77bcbb851fd4ea#). -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
