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Old 11-27-2013
Timezone and date +%s command
DST started on Oct 20th in Brazil.
If I run the below command in that time zone,
date +%s -d "10/20/2013" it throws an error message "Invalid date" . But it works fine for other dates including 19th and 21st Oct.
Any idea ? Is there any unix patch ?
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Old 11-27-2013
Which OS ?
Post result of following
Code:
$ date --version

Code:
$ uname -a

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Old 11-27-2013
Code:
# uname -a
Linux auto172a20-116-91 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jan 4 13:32:19 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Code:
# date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 5.97
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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