Re: date command

2010-03-05 Thread Bernd Fehling
Hi Erik, there is no TZ set. # date Fr Mär 5 13:59:12 UCT 2010 # date -u Fr Mär 5 13:59:18 UTC 2010 Lets see... OK, yes you are right its a typo in SuSe system setting: SUSE LINUX 10.1 (X86-64) tail /etc/sysconfig/clock ## Type:string(Europe/Berlin,Europe/London,Europe/Paris)

Re: date command

2010-03-05 Thread Eric Blake
According to Bernd Fehling on 3/5/2010 6:04 AM: > Hi all, > > while using the date command (date GNU coreutils 5.93) > it reports e.g.: > Fri Mar 5 13:01:52 UCT 2010 > > So why is it reporting UCT and not UTC ??? > Is that a typo? Most likely, it is being inherited from $TZ in the environment:

Re: DATE command

2010-02-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert wrote: > That is, until you run into this kind of weirdness in which "date" groks > "CST", "EDT" and "EST" but throws up its hands at the thought of Central > Daylight Time. Thank you for the report. But what you are seeing is not a bug in date but is a misunderstanding of when dayligh

Re: date-command

2008-05-31 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I´m running coreutils 6.9.92.4-f088d-dirty (dirty??), "dirty" means that you are running from a git version control system checkout of the code with uncommitted changes and not from an official upstream distribution image. That is okay. > and I found a bug. I´m using t

Re: date command

2008-02-28 Thread Philip Rowlands
[ Re-adding bug-coreutils, so the mailing list archives get the benefit of the whole discussion ] On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Felix Joussein wrote: thank your for your detailed answers. since we're talking about time, and I was quiet busy the past 4 weeks and didn't have time to continue, I'm now ab

Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Felix Joussein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Basicaly the goal ist, to set back the time at a certain moment for 1 Second. It's all about the leap-second which might be set every last second of the 31th of dec. or 30th of june... But the stated time stamp (01/31/2008 14:20:60) is not

Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Felix Joussein wrote: Basically I am aware of what you said, but as I am operating an NTP Server which get it's timescale directly from an ATOM clock via the serial interface, which makes it to a STRATUM 1 server, I have to set the leap second manually by date command or simi

Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread Felix Joussein
Hello James, thank you for your brief answer. Basically I am aware of what you said, but as I am operating an NTP Server which get it's timescale directly from an ATOM clock via the serial interface, which makes it to a STRATUM 1 server, I have to set the leap second manually by date command or si

Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread James Youngman
On Feb 1, 2008 8:24 AM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basicaly the goal ist, to set back the time at a certain moment for 1 > > Second. It's all about the leap-second which might be set every last > > second of the 31th of dec. or 30th of june... > > Doing this with the new date comm

Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Felix Joussein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jim, Hi Felix, Thanks for the report. It would probably have been resolved by now (10 hours later) if you had sent it to the bug-reporting/discussion list rather than just to me. I'm forwarding it there now. > within a project which is related t