bug#15785: Problem with incrementing date when clock goes back

[Samuel Penn]

The "date" command seems to have a problem when the clock goes back. 
Last Sunday (27th October 2013), the time changed from BST to GMT, 
so we had a day with 25 hours in it.

Running the following gives unexpected results:

# date -s "2013/10/27 00:00:00"
Sun Oct 27 00:00:00 BST 2013
# date --date="+1 day"
Sun Oct 27 23:00:04 GMT 2013
# date --date="tomorrow"
Sun Oct 27 23:00:08 GMT 2013

I would expect that both "+1 day" and "tomorrow" to move the date
to the next day, but neither do so.

Whilst I can accept that "+1 day" actually adds 24 hours (and
therefore gives the above result), I would always expect "tomorrow"
to give tomorrow, regardless of time changes, and regardless of the
current time.

This issue seems to have been raised (and 'fixed') before:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00001.html


The version of date/coreutils seems to be: GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04

-- 
Samuel Penn
Software Engineer
Perforce Software


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