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`TZ=Pacific/Kwajalein date -d 1993-08-20` doesn't fail


Hi cyg,

this issue emerged from one of the typical questions on the bug-coreutils@gnu.org
mailing list about why "date -d '1991-04-14 +1 day' fails" 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-08/msg00077.html
The discussion around date calculation with such a daylight savings time issues
(gap at 00:00 in the user's timezone) became esoteric, but there was a difference
detected between upstream and cygwin of the coreutils-8.5 package.

The day 1993-08-20 doesn't exist in TZ=Pacific/Kwajalein (because at midnight Kwajalein
moved the clocks ahead by 24 hours.), so coreutils 8.5 issues the following error on native
Linux (according to Paul Eggert):
  
  $ TZ=Pacific/Kwajalein date -d 1993-08-20
  date: invalid date `1993-08-20'

but it doesn't fail on my Cygwin installation (see below).
Is there a porting/packaging issue?

Have a nice day,
Berny


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU] 
Sent: Dienstag, 24. August 2010 10:04
To: Voelker, Bernhard
Cc: Alan Curry; 6897@debbugs.gnu.org; 李嘉鹏
Subject: Re: bug#6897: date -d '1991-04-14 +1 day' fails

On 08/24/10 00:23, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:

> BTW: This example looks different here:
> 
>   $ TZ=Pacific/Kwajalein date -d 1993-08-20
>   Sat Aug 21 00:00:00 MHT 1993
> 
>   $ date --version
>   date (GNU coreutils) 8.5
>   Packaged by Cygwin (8.5-2)
>   ...
> 
> Why?

Haven't a clue.  Perhaps you can debug it?  I get the
correct answer (i.e., there was no such date) on both
RHEL 5 with my own-built coreutils 8.5, and with
Ubuntu 10.04 with its standard-issue coreutils 7.4.

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