bug-coreutils date command

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Tue Dec 4 16:00:00 GMT 2007


[ reply moved from bug-coreutils@ to cygwin-apps@ ]

Richard Narum wrote:

> Thanks for your prompt comments.  I did not have tzcode installed.  I installed 2007h-1 and I had to use TZ="America/Chicago" and all is well now.  I checked dates back to 1974 and they match to a tee.

That sounds like a packaging bug, shouldn't tzcode be in the Base
category so that it's always installed?  Looking at the current
setup.ini, I see that no package calls for the tzcode package explicitly
so unless the user knows to select it, it will never be installed.

Brian



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