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bug#63349: Bug in date when using UTC/GMT timeszones in the TZ variable


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#63349: Bug in date when using UTC/GMT timeszones in the TZ variable
Date: Sun, 7 May 2023 12:36:48 -0400
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On 5/7/23 07:52, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Thus TZ=UTC+2 means two hours before UTC.


Yes, and this mistake seems to be common enough that I installed the attached patch into Gnulib, so that it'll propagate into the Coreutils manual, which should help people who read the 'date' documentation (admittedly only a subset of 'date' users).

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