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Re: confusing timezone reporting
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: confusing timezone reporting |
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Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:36:53 +0200 |
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walter harms <address@hidden> writes:
> env TZ="UTC-2" date
> Mi Aug 17 15:51:30 UTC 2005
> ^^^^^
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> as you see time is ok but the timezone is wrong (should be UTC-2).
It's not wrong. You explicitly say that the timezone name is UTC and the
offset is 2 hours. If you want a different timezone name you need to use
a different name.
See
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html#tag_08_03>
for the syntax of the the TZ value.
Andreas.
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