On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 04:52:44PM +0200, David Neary wrote:
> > It appears date gets its knickers in a severe twist if TZ is not set in the
> > environment.
> >
> > The bug persists in the current version from alpha.gnu.org (2.0.11). Is this
> > my first actual GNU bug discovery ?
>> I would say "Yes".
>> Have you had a look at the source or run a debug?
I got the latest source to see if the bug persists, and it does. I could
envisage a quick and dirty bug fix by finding where date gets the value of
TZ from its environment and making sure that it's something but I'm simply
going to report it to the gnu bug address and let the author do a 'proper'
fix.
Niall
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