control: reassign -1: coreutils control: retitle -1: coreutils: date doesn't know about AEST timezone
On 2016-07-26 11:45, Mark Stafford wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2016f-0+deb8u1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I was attempting to write a script something like a world clock to help > schedule a task in six time zones. > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? > * What was the outcome of this action? > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > Steps to reproduce: > > # the alias isn't necessary, but it simplifies the demonstration > alias lax="TZ='America/Los_Angeles' date --date=@1469558444 '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M > %Z'" > alias syd="TZ='Australia/Sydney' date --date=@1469558444 '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z'" > lax > syd > date --date "$( lax )" > date --date "$( syd )" > > bug symptom: > 2016-07-26 11:40 PDT > 2016-07-27 04:40 AEST > Tue Jul 26 11:40:00 PDT 2016 > date: invalid date ‘2016-07-27 04:40 AEST’ > > expected behavior: > 2016-07-26 11:40 PDT > 2016-07-27 04:40 EST > Tue Jul 26 11:40:00 PDT 2016 > Wed Jul 27 02:40:00 PDT 2016 "date -d" parses the timezone itself without the help of tzdata, and it indeed doesn't know about the AEST timezone. I am therefore reassigning the bug to coreutils. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
