Hi,
I believe there is a bug in the date utility.
My system is set to Berlin time, now daylight saving time.
When I put in
date --date='TZ="Europe/Berlin" now'
I get correctly
Sat 17 Aug 05:11:18 CEST 2019
However, putting in
date --date='TZ="America/Los_Angeles" now'
yields
Sat 17 Aug 14:12:03 CEST 2019
which is nonsense. Also, putting in
date --date='TZ="Asia/Shanghai" now'
giving
Fri 16 Aug 23:13:36 CEST 2019
which is definitely wrong, as I am currently in China where the sun is
up and shining.
I get from date --version the following:
date (GNU coreutils) 8.23
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by David MacKenzie.
My system is
Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u1 (2017-02-22)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
I get the same kind of error using 'today' instead of 'now', or
'tomorrow', '1 hour ago', etc.
In case you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best,
Jens Baltrusch
