close 13938
stop
(triaging old bugs)
On 12/03/13 11:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Aleš Kantor wrote:
Set date to Mar 10, 2013 (the day clocks moved fwd)
In which timezone? Please tell us what timezone you are in because
the tzdata is different for everyone.
Instead of setting the time simply include the date in the timestamp.
But for the purpose of recreating the problem please do include the
timezone too. The -R,--rfc-2822 option is good to use to avoid the
ambiguous timezone naming used in the traditional legacy output.
$ env TZ=US/Mountain date -R -d "2013-03-10 12:00"
Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:00:00 -0600
This command
date -d 2:30am
gives "Invalid date," probably reasonable, since that time didn't exist.
Correct. In US timezones at least that time does not exist.
This one should work, but fails as well:
date -d "2:00am yesterday"
date: invalid date `2:00am yesterday'
With no further comments to Bob's explanation in 5 years,
I'm closing this bug.
-assaf
