Re: date for RHEL-3

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, William Kreuter wrote:

> Is this still the correct address to send inquiries
> regarding GNU's date shell command?
>
> On several RHEL systems, all running some version of
> the 2.4.21 kernel, the shell command:
>
> date -d 'March 12 2007'
>
> sends to stdout:
>
> Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 PST 2007
>
> The correct result should have a "D" in byte 22, not
> "S", to account for current US law for daylight
> savings time.
>
> Is there anyplace that I can obtain a fixed version of
> "date"?  Thanks.

Your system's tz files are not up to date. Please see this page:

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0714.html

For RHEL3, you'll need a valid RHN subscription to access the specific 
binary RPM package (I think).


Cheers,
Phil