From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:49:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] UNIX reference time of 1970-01-01 00:00 is UTC timezone, not local time zone
Message-ID: <45BA3F13.2090003@fs.ei.tum.de>
In-Reply-To: <200701260858.48212.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins wrote:
> $ date --date="1970-01-01 00:00" +"%F %T %z (%Z)"
> 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0100 (BST)

nice observation.  yet, my system doesn't even have date --date=.  regarding the idea to provide a generic nice hook, it should be considered to convert this usage to a standards-conforming way.

cheers
  simon

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