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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 07:20:01 -0700
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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: bin/747: date(1) gives weird time zones and interprets GMT[+-] backwards
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The following reply was made to PR bin/747; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: bin/747: date(1) gives weird time zones and interprets GMT[+-] backwards
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 10:17:36 -0400

 <<On Wed, 27 Sep 1995 16:42:32 PDT, Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> said:
 
 > % env TZ=GMT date
 > Wed Sep 27 23:28:33  1995
 
 > Where did the time zone go?
 
 `GMT' is not a valid time zone specification.
 
 > % env TZ=GMT-7 date
 > Thu Sep 28 06:31:58 GMT 1995
 
 `GMT-7' is a valid timezone specification which specifies a zone name
 of `GMT' and an offset of seven hours /ahead/ of Greenwich.
 
 wollman@khavrinen(310)$ TZ=Etc/GMT date
 Thu Sep 28 14:17:00 GMT 1995
 wollman@khavrinen(311)$ TZ=Etc/GMT-7 date
 Thu Sep 28 21:17:08 GMT-7 1995
 
 -GAWollman
 
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