Re: date (zoneinfo database?) mixes up the AM and the PM for some New Zealand locations

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024, at 16:32, Chris Elvidge wrote:

> "New Zealand" isn't in the timezone list so date doesn't understand it.

Sure, but date also doesn't treat it as invalid:

$ TZ=America/New_Yorkk src/date
Thu 19 Sep 23:50:55 America 2024

$ TZ=America/New_Yorkk src/date  --debug
src/date: output format: ‘%a %e %b %H:%M:%S %Z %Y’
Thu 19 Sep 23:50:58 America 2024

$ TZ=America/New_Yorkk src/date --debug -d now
date: parsed relative part: today/this/now
date: input timezone: TZ="America/New_Yorkk" environment value
date: using current time as starting value: '23:51:10'
date: using current date as starting value: '(Y-M-D) 2024-09-19'
date: starting date/time: '(Y-M-D) 2024-09-19 23:51:10'
date: '(Y-M-D) 2024-09-19 23:51:10' = 1726789870 epoch-seconds
date: timezone: TZ="America/New_Yorkk" environment value
date: final: 1726789870.496873414 (epoch-seconds)
date: final: (Y-M-D) 2024-09-19 23:51:10 (UTC)
date: final: (Y-M-D) 2024-09-19 23:51:10 (UTC+00)
src/date: output format: ‘%a %e %b %H:%M:%S %Z %Y’
Thu 19 Sep 23:51:10 America 2024


There's no indication, even in debug mode, that there's a typo in the TZ value.


Cheers,
Phil