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invalid date converting from UTC, near DST |
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Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:24:03 +1100 |
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Cyrus-JMAP/3.3.0-407-g461656c-fm-20201004.001-g461656c6 |
Hi,
I seem to have found a bug in the date utility, converting from UTC to Sydney time. It returns invalid date for what should be perfectly valid:
$ TZ='Australia/Sydney' date -d '2020-10-04T02:00:00Z'
date: invalid date ā2020-10-04T02:00:00Zā
$ TZ='Australia/Sydney' date -d '2020-10-04T02:59:59Z'
date: invalid date ā2020-10-04T02:59:59Zā
Note DST in Sydney changed 10 hours earlier:
$ TZ='Australia/Sydney' date -d '2020-10-03T15:59:59Z'
Sunday 4 October 01:59:59 AEST 2020
$ TZ='Australia/Sydney' date -d '2020-10-03T16:00:00Z'
Sunday 4 October 03:00:00 AEDT 2020
I have version 8.25:
$ date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.25
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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.
Thanks,
Martin.
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Re: bug#43828: invalid date converting from UTC, near DST |
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Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:28:07 -0700 |
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On 10/6/20 4:24 AM, Martin Fido wrote:
I have version 8.25:
Seems to have been fixed by coreutils 8.30:
$ TZ='Australia/Sydney' date -d '2020-10-04T02:00:00Z'
Sun 04 Oct 2020 01:00:00 PM AEDT
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