[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#8241: closed (Bug#618009: date: invalid date `TZ="America/Chicago" now' but Europe/Paris OK)

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has caused the GNU bug report #8241,
regarding Bug#618009: date: invalid date `TZ="America/Chicago" now' but 
Europe/Paris OK
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> Bug#618009: date: invalid date `TZ="America/Chicago" now' but	Europe/Paris OK
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> Sun, 13 Mar 2011 09:40:21 +0800
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> Package: coreutils
> Version: 8.5-1
> File: /bin/date
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> for i in Asia/Taipei America/Chicago America/New_York Europe/Paris
> do for j in monday now yesterday today tomorrow 12pm
>     do echo TZ=\"$i\" $j; done; done|date -f -
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> date: invalid date `TZ="America/Chicago" now' etc.
> ONLY when in America, and ONLY when using now etc.
> Monday etc. don't trigger the bug.
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> By the way, America is undergoing a Daylight Savings Time jump right
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> > By the way, America is undergoing a Daylight Savings Time jump right
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> Well, there's your answer. You were probably asking for a date/time that
> did not exist due to the daylight savings time skip.
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> Benoît Knecht
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