[Bug 354793] Re: date returns "invalid date" for some timezone's DST
It happens on Ubuntu 14.04 too. # date Sun Oct 18 02:08:18 BRST 2015 # date --date=2015-10-18 date: invalid date ‘2015-10-18’ # date --date=2015-10-19 Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 BRST 2015 # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release:14.04 Codename: trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 Title: date returns "invalid date" for some timezone's DST To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/354793/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
It is still not working as expected with Lucid. And it's breaking a script of mine, sending every instance to an endless, CPU eating loop… -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 Title: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/354793/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
I have a problem setting the date on: g...@gep-work:~$ sudo date 03280243 date: invalid date `03280243' But: g...@gep-work:~$ sudo date 03280343 Sun Mar 28 03:43:00 EEST 2010 -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
same error: date: invalid date `2009/10/18' == Linux hp-work 2.6.28-16-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 20 19:48:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux - date --version date (GNU coreutils) 6.10 Copyright (C) 2008 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. - -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-762-1 ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Dapper) Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
** CVE added: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi- bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-1300 -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
I won't have an upload for Gutsy, because I won't be publishing this until next week, and Gutsy will be EOL. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Gutsy) Status: In Progress = Won't Fix ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Dapper) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.7.20.2ubuntu6 --- apt (0.7.20.2ubuntu6) jaunty; urgency=low [ Jamie Strandboge ] * apt.cron.daily: catch invalid dates due to DST time changes in the stamp files (LP: #354793) [ Michael Vogt ] * methods/gpgv.cc: - properly check for expired and revoked keys (closes: #433091) LP: #356012 -- Michael Vogt michael.v...@ubuntu.com Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:39:50 +0200 ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: In Progress = Fix Released -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Jaunty) Assignee: (unassigned) = Michael Vogt (mvo) -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
** Summary changed: - date error on saving time starting day + date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: High Status: In Progress ** Also affects: coreutils (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: Medium Status: Won't Fix -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
Alexandre: 'now' shouldn't need to be fixed, because date will get the system time and convert it to the proper date. The problem comes with 'stamp' using 'date -r' on a file on the system, which could conceivably have the wrong date. Please correct me if I missed something. As for coreutils, upstream (ie, not me or Ubuntu) has decided that the time in question and other dates such as 'Feb 30' are wrong because they don't exist and choose to express that as an error condition. As such, we need to adjust our tools/scripts to account for this. -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
Alexandre: I see the issue with 'now' now. Since we use 'date --iso-8601' and feed that to date, then the hour, minute and second are all zero. My patch doesn't properly address using --iso-8601 for stamp either. I'll send an updated patch in a few minutes. -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
I agree that other scripts may probably also be hit by this type of error. Nevertheless, 'date' *does* return a non-zero return code if an error if found; *not* checking if a command ended in error is a much more serious programming error than this, ah, invalid date returned. With that said, if 'date' did not return a non-zero RC on this... then *this* is certainly a bug, no doubt. The behaviour of 'date' is well-documented (or, at least, well, documented), and this type of 'invalid' return can happen. We can discuss upstream (in the same mailing list you quoted) -- this would be the best venue. I can see -- and, again, quoting from the email thread you provided -- that a case that 'date' should return the first available time in a date, instead or erroring out if 00:00:00 (or some other time/date/TZ combination) does not exist. Just be aware that this will be a short blanket thing, since (now) the apt cron scripts will work, but somewhere out in the wild world someone will have a script that depends on the day beginning at 00:00:00... and this will now fail! -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
Here is an updated patch. It should now properly handle --iso-8601 for 'stamp' and 'now'. This patch is against 0.7.20.2ubuntu5 in Jaunty. ** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu Intrepid) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: coreutils (Ubuntu Intrepid) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu Hardy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: coreutils (Ubuntu Hardy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu Dapper) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: coreutils (Ubuntu Dapper) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu Gutsy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: coreutils (Ubuntu Gutsy) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu Dapper) Status: New = Won't Fix ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu Gutsy) Status: New = Won't Fix ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: New = Won't Fix ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: New = Won't Fix ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Dapper) Status: New = In Progress ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Dapper) Importance: Undecided = High ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Dapper) Assignee: (unassigned) = Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Gutsy) Status: New = In Progress ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Gutsy) Importance: Undecided = High ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Gutsy) Assignee: (unassigned) = Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: New = In Progress ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Hardy) Importance: Undecided = High ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Hardy) Assignee: (unassigned) = Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: New = In Progress ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Intrepid) Importance: Undecided = High ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Intrepid) Assignee: (unassigned) = Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) ** Attachment added: 354793_v2.patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25053031/354793_v2.patch -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
Here is a simple test case for the bug. It will return '2' if the stamp file has a bad date, '1' if 'now' is a bad date (this is hardcoded) and '0' if all is well. The code is the same as in the patch, except for the return codes and hardcoded 'now'. Note, you need to have your timezone set to America/San_Paulo. ** Attachment added: 354793_test.sh http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25053110/354793_test.sh -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 354793] Re: date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST
Here is a tar file which contains the file 'foo', with a date that will trigger the bug. To use with the test case: $ tar -xvf ./354793.tar foo tar: foo: time stamp 2009-10-18 01:00:00 is 16613753.588577226 s in the future $ ./354793_test.sh ./foo ; echo $? 2 $ ./354793_test.sh ./foo ; echo $? date: ./foo: No such file or directory 1 The first run removed the file, and the second checked the hard coded date. ** Attachment added: 354793.tar http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25058690/354793.tar -- date returns invalid date for some timezone's DST https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
