Re: [bug-gnulib] problem with getdate

[Derek Price]

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Ian Abbott wrote:

| Hi,
|
| I'm having some trouble with the getdate test utility with certain
| time-specs with certain timezones.  Is this the correct behaviour?
| I ask, because the 'cvs' program uses GMT internally and that is
| screwing me up!
|
| $ TZ=Europe/London ./getdate Enter date, or blank line to exit.
|> 2005-3-1 GMT
| 2005-03-01 00:00:00.000000000
|> 2005-3-27 GMT
| 2005-03-27 00:00:00.000000000
|> 2005-3-28 GMT
| Bad format - couldn't convert.
|> 2005-4-1 GMT
| Bad format - couldn't convert.
|
| $ TZ=America/New_York ./getdate Enter date, or blank line to exit.
|> 2005-3-1 EST
| 2005-03-01 00:00:00.000000000
|> 2005-4-1 EST
| 2005-04-01 00:00:00.000000000
|> 2005-5-1 EST
| Bad format - couldn't convert.


If I pass these times in as "EDT" (Eastern Daylight Time), then they
work.  Ian mentioned doing something similar with "BST" (British
Summer Time) in a separate email.  Is this an intentional failure?  Is
it appropriate with a zone like GMT?

Regards,

Derek
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