Re: date gives error on valid input

[Andreas Schwab]

Bob Proulx <address@hidden> writes:

> Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>> % date -d 2008-10-19
>> date: invalid date `2008-10-19'
>> 
>> This happens with 5.97 and 6.10 in Debian.
>
> This works okay for me using Debian.

$ TZ=America/Buenos_Aires date -d 2008-10-19
date: invalid date `2008-10-19'

This date/time does not exist, Brazil switched to DST just at this
point in time.

$ zdump -v America/Sao_Paulo | grep 2008
America/Sao_Paulo  Sun Feb 17 01:59:59 2008 UTC = Sat Feb 16 23:59:59 2008 BRST 
isdst=1
America/Sao_Paulo  Sun Feb 17 02:00:00 2008 UTC = Sat Feb 16 23:00:00 2008 BRT 
isdst=0
America/Sao_Paulo  Sun Oct 19 02:59:59 2008 UTC = Sat Oct 18 23:59:59 2008 BRT 
isdst=0
America/Sao_Paulo  Sun Oct 19 03:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Oct 19 01:00:00 2008 BRST 
isdst=1

Andreas.

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