[bug-gnulib] problem with getdate

[Ian Abbott]

Hi,

I'm having some trouble with the getdate test utility with certain 
time-specs with certain timezones.  Is this the correct behaviour?
I ask, because the 'cvs' program uses GMT internally and that is 
screwing me up!

$ TZ=Europe/London ./getdate
Enter date, or blank line to exit.
        > 2005-3-1 GMT
2005-03-01 00:00:00.000000000
        > 2005-3-27 GMT
2005-03-27 00:00:00.000000000
        > 2005-3-28 GMT
Bad format - couldn't convert.
        > 2005-4-1 GMT
Bad format - couldn't convert.

$ TZ=America/New_York ./getdate
Enter date, or blank line to exit.
        > 2005-3-1 EST
2005-03-01 00:00:00.000000000
        > 2005-4-1 EST
2005-04-01 00:00:00.000000000
        > 2005-5-1 EST
Bad format - couldn't convert.

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