unarchive 16872 forcemerge 21186 16872 stop On 04/08/15 12:36, Michael Moffatt wrote: > Hi there, > > I inadvertently discovered that the following bad input leads to a date > core. While I accept that I was throwing garbage at poor old date, I > thought that the resulting core merited a bug report. > > The string was: > > date +%s -d'TZ="America/Los_Angeles" "Tue, 14 Jul 2015 04:00:35 +0000"' > > I was doing this on Centos, but also verified the same issue on Debian > (6.0.10) with coreutils 8.5 but the problem did NOT happen on another > Debian (jessie/sid) box with coreutils 8.21.
This fix which was included in coreutils 8.23 and probably backported to debian: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=a10acfb1d2 It's not been fixed in centos 7 yet: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1167548 cheers, Pádraig.
