Bug 8162 – /bin/date cannot parse CEST timezone

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Bug 8162 - /bin/date cannot parse CEST timezone

Summary:	/bin/date cannot parse CEST timezone

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	sh-utils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Reported:	2000-01-04 08:29 EST by han.holl
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-01-05 08:19:08 EST
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Description han.holl 2000-01-04 08:29:16 EST

date --date "Tue Apr 27 21:17:44 CEST 1999"
produces:
date: invalid date `Tue Apr 27 21:17:44 CEST 1999'

This is because CEST was accidentally omitted from
lib/getdate.c

Here is the patch. Please also inform the sh-utils mantainers.

Han Holl

--- sh-utils-1.16/lib/getdate.c.cest    Wed May 12 15:21:12 1999
+++ sh-utils-1.16/lib/getdate.c Wed May 12 15:22:48 1999
@@ -1612,6 +1612,7 @@
     { "nt",    tZONE,     HOUR (11) }, /* Nome */
     { "idlw",  tZONE,     HOUR (12) }, /* International Date Line West */
     { "cet",   tZONE,     -HOUR (1) }, /* Central European */
+    { "cest",  tDAYZONE,     -HOUR (1) },      /* Central European Summer
*/
     { "met",   tZONE,     -HOUR (1) }, /* Middle European */
     { "mewt",  tZONE,     -HOUR (1) }, /* Middle European Winter */
     { "mest",  tDAYZONE,  -HOUR (1) }, /* Middle European Summer */

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-05 08:19:59 EST

Fixed in sh-utils-2.0-3. Thanks for the patch.

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