Yves Arrouye writes: Yves> I can't find the name of the package maintainer, so here's the Yves> problem: when the timezone is incorrectly set (the default in my 1.1 Yves> brand new installation), saying Yves> Yves> % date +%Z Yves> Yves> does something bad: instead of returning an empty timezone (as if I Yves> say "date '+%H %Z'" which works perfectly), the disk starts spinning Yves> and date does not return until it is killed.
Works for me (note the ' around the call): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/progs/knn> date '+%Z' EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/progs/knn> dpkg -s shellutils Package: shellutils Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Maintainer: David P. Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.12-5 Pre-Depends: libc5 (>=5.2.18-1) Description: The GNU shell programming utilities. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
