On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Burba, Viktor <viktor.bu...@siemens.com> wrote: > Dear guys, > > I have expierenced the following unexpeted behaviour by using the "date" > command on SuSE SLES10(x86_64): > > I have timezone setup to Asia/Dubai (GMT+4), which has short name GST > (Gulf Standart time) > > #date > Thu Feb 20 20:00:00 GST 2009 > #date --utc -d "now" > Thu Feb 20 16:00:00 UTC 2009 - OK UTC+4 > #date --utc -d "Thu Feb 20 20:00:00 GST 2009" > Thu Feb 20 10:00:00 UTC 2009 - ??? UTC+10 > > I think here some name problems with GST. Because there are four > timezones with the same short name GST > > Guam Standart Time UTC+10 > Gulf Standart Time UTC+4 > Greenland Standart Time UTC-3 > South Georgia Time UTC-2 > > Here looks like date uses UTC+10 for name GST, which is also timezone > GST but Guam Standart time and not Gulf Standart time. > How can I force date to use another time offset for GST name?
It is probably better to use TZ=Asia/Dubai. See $ info coreutils "Specifying time zone rules" James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
