On 02/28/2017 12:01 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > > I might suggest doing away first with relative times, then perhaps > with timezones. > > There are some confusing combinations, especially with relative times > (e.g. "20170228 + 2 days" vs "20:45:45 + 2 days", the latter parsed > as "8:45:45pm+02:00TZ + 1 day"), > > and then with all sorts of things that are taken as timezones (like > "2017A" which is parsed as '8:17pm in timezone -01:00'. Hello Assaf, Because hwclock(8) was using date(1) to parse --date strings, it has always be subject to these issues. Some time ago I added a warning not to use relative times in hwclock.8. I just added a warning about timezones as well. I don't think blocking them from the parser is needed. They could be useful to some other util-linux module. > > I'm happy to help with testing if needed. Thank you very much Assaf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
