Re: PDT timezone bug in GNU coreutils "date" v6.9

[James Youngman]

On Jan 28, 2008 1:23 AM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:

> What should be done when the timezone is ambiguous?

That's a tiny minority of cases, and a case which many people will not
think to check.  Therefore I think the most helpful thing a tool can
do is fail with an explanatory message.   That is, in the case of
"date" for example, return nonzero, issue a clear error message on
stderr and emit no data on stdout.

James.