severity 625909 normal tags 625909 + unreproducible thanks Thanks for your report. However I have set the bug severity to normal since this type of bug is often reported but is almost always due to timezone issues surrounding local Daylight Saving Time and not to an actual bug in date.
David Pirotte wrote: > david@rascar:~ 19 $ date --date="2010-10-17" +'%c' > date: invalid date 2010-10-17' I cannot reproduce this result. $ TZ=US/Mountain date --date="2010-10-17" +'%c' Sun 17 Oct 2010 12:00:00 AM MDT What timezone are you using? That is a critical piece of information to understand what is happening. This is very typical of reports from users in a timezone where that time instant does not exist and therefore is an invalid date. Here is a useful reference to the interaction of date and timezones. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e Does the information there help to identify a DST issue? Try using a time away from midnight and toward noon which is usually far away from DST changes. $ TZ=US/Mountain date --date="2010-10-17 12:00" +'%c' Sun 17 Oct 2010 12:00:00 PM MDT Personally I prefer use of -R to produce an unambiguous standard time string output format. $ TZ=US/Mountain date -R --date="2010-10-17 12:00" Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:00:00 -0600 Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
