Yes, doing some spot checking I concur that all the "affected" dates listed are DST changeover dates. On those dates, there in fact is no 2-3 AM, meaning that 0200-0259 in fact do NOT exist. I have verified that the date in question works fine outside of that 1 hour window:
touch -t 201403090300 test (works fine) I concur: Not a bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to coreutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1403301 Title: Ubuntu 12.04 touch -t does not work for March 9 2014 Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Version of Ubuntu used: lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS Release: 12.04 Codename: precise I am using touch -t to generate files to test backup file rotation. 'touch' does not believe March 9, 2014 is a valid date. Working: touch -t "201303090220" somefile touch -t "201403100220" somefile Not working: touch -t "201403090220" broke touch: invalid date format `201403090220' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1403301/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
