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Re: [bug-gnulib] problem with getdate
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Dmitry V. Levin |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-gnulib] problem with getdate |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:27:43 +0400 |
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:24:35AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Derek Price <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > 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?
>
> No, it's not. I installed this fix into gnulib. Thanks for reporting
> it.
>
> 2005-04-12 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>
> * getdate.y (universal_time_zone_table): New constant.
> (time_zone_table): Remove GMT, UT, UTC entries; they're now in
> universal_time_zone_table.
> (lookup_zone): Prefer universal_time_zone_table to
> local_time_zone_table, so that "GMT" time stamps are allowed in
> London during the summer. Problem reported by Ian Abbott.
This change breaks five tests from coreutils test suite (tests/date):
utc-0a, utc-1a, date2sec-0a, relative-1, relative-2.
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