Upstream patch on top of coreutils-8.27. Avoid a FP of tests/misc/date-debug.sh with newer timezone-2017a. Upstream patch: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=612086660b From 612086660bab9bf981894da146550e9101224b17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 23:59:05 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] tests: port to tzdb-2017a Problem reported by Bernhard Voelker in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-03/msg00026.html * tests/misc/date-debug.sh: Port test to tzdb 2017a, and future-proof the America/Belize test. --- tests/misc/date-debug.sh | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: tests/misc/date-debug.sh =================================================================== --- tests/misc/date-debug.sh.orig +++ tests/misc/date-debug.sh @@ -52,10 +52,11 @@ date: output timezone: +09:00 (set from date: final: 661095000.000000000 (epoch-seconds) date: final: (Y-M-D) 1990-12-13 13:30:00 (UTC0) date: final: (Y-M-D) 1990-12-13 22:30:00 (output timezone TZ=+09:00) -Thu Dec 13 07:30:00 CST 1990 +Thu Dec 13 07:30:00 -0600 1990 EOF -TZ=America/Belize date --debug -d "$in1" >out1 2>&1 || fail=1 +TZ=America/Belize date --debug -d "$in1" +'%a %b %e %T %z %Y' >out1 2>&1 || + fail=1 compare exp1 out1 || fail=1 @@ -94,10 +95,10 @@ date: output timezone: -05:00 (set from date: final: 1.000000000 (epoch-seconds) date: final: (Y-M-D) 1970-01-01 00:00:01 (UTC0) date: final: (Y-M-D) 1969-12-31 19:00:01 (output timezone TZ=-05:00) -Wed Dec 31 19:00:01 PET 1969 +Wed Dec 31 19:00:01 -0500 1969 EOF -TZ=America/Lima date --debug -d "$in3" >out3 2>&1 || fail=1 +TZ=America/Lima date --debug -d "$in3" +'%a %b %e %T %z %Y' >out3 2>&1 || fail=1 compare exp3 out3 || fail=1 ##