Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 07:20:01 -0700 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: bin/747: date(1) gives weird time zones and interprets GMT[+-] backwards Message-ID: <199509281420.HAA15074@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/747; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/747: date(1) gives weird time zones and interprets GMT[+-] backwards Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:17:36 -0400 <<On Wed, 27 Sep 1995 16:42:32 PDT, Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> said: > % env TZ=GMT date > Wed Sep 27 23:28:33 1995 > Where did the time zone go? `GMT' is not a valid time zone specification. > % env TZ=GMT-7 date > Thu Sep 28 06:31:58 GMT 1995 `GMT-7' is a valid timezone specification which specifies a zone name of `GMT' and an offset of seven hours /ahead/ of Greenwich. wollman@khavrinen(310)$ TZ=Etc/GMT date Thu Sep 28 14:17:00 GMT 1995 wollman@khavrinen(311)$ TZ=Etc/GMT-7 date Thu Sep 28 21:17:08 GMT-7 1995 -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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