Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: normal
These results are correct: griffon:~$ date Sun Apr 20 09:44:18 EDT 2008 griffon:~$ date -d 'Sun Apr 20 18:00:00 EDT 2008 -1 hour' Sun Apr 20 17:00:00 EDT 2008 griffon:~$ date -d '18:00:00 EDT -1 hour' Sun Apr 20 17:00:00 EDT 2008 But if I leave off the time zone name, I get: griffon:~$ date -d '18:00:00 -1 hour' Sun Apr 20 15:01:00 EDT 2008 griffon:~$ date -d '18:00:00 -4 hour' Sun Apr 20 15:04:00 EDT 2008 griffon:~$ date -d '18:00:00 -5 hour' Sun Apr 20 15:05:00 EDT 2008 This is clearly not correct or useful behavior. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.39-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.59-1 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]