Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes: > Carlos Carvalho wrote: >> % date -d 2008-10-19 >> date: invalid date `2008-10-19' >> >> This happens with 5.97 and 6.10 in Debian. > > This works okay for me using Debian.
$ TZ=America/Buenos_Aires date -d 2008-10-19 date: invalid date `2008-10-19' This date/time does not exist, Brazil switched to DST just at this point in time. $ zdump -v America/Sao_Paulo | grep 2008 America/Sao_Paulo Sun Feb 17 01:59:59 2008 UTC = Sat Feb 16 23:59:59 2008 BRST isdst=1 America/Sao_Paulo Sun Feb 17 02:00:00 2008 UTC = Sat Feb 16 23:00:00 2008 BRT isdst=0 America/Sao_Paulo Sun Oct 19 02:59:59 2008 UTC = Sat Oct 18 23:59:59 2008 BRT isdst=0 America/Sao_Paulo Sun Oct 19 03:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 19 01:00:00 2008 BRST isdst=1 Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, sch...@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
