Your timezone is not determined by your locale setting. What does the following command output:
Code:
echo $TZ
It's not set. However the file /etc/timezone contains the string Europe/London; the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London links to ../GB, ie /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB.
Or, more succinctly, I am using the default system timezone, which was set to Europe/London when I installed this system.
I've found this message in the bug-coreutils list. It turns out that date is parsing the + 1 as offset from UTC. This can be seen if I use different numbers in my date invocation:
Code:
$ date --date="15:00 + 3 minutes"
Mon 5 Nov 12:01:00 GMT 2018
$ date --date="15:00 + 2 minutes"
Mon 5 Nov 13:01:00 GMT 2018
$ date --date="15:00 + 1 minute"
Mon 5 Nov 14:01:00 GMT 2018
$ date --date="15:00 - 1 minute"
Mon 5 Nov 16:01:00 GMT 2018
$ date --date="15:00 - 2 minutes"
Mon 5 Nov 17:01:00 GMT 2018
$ date --date="15:00 - 3 minutes"
Mon 5 Nov 18:01:00 GMT 2018
Notice how the minute field stays at 01 rather than being incremented (decremented) by the value I specified.
Now, counter-intuitively, I can place the + 1 minute anywhere in the date definition, so
Code:
$ date --date="+ 1 minute 15:00"
Mon 5 Nov 15:01:00 GMT 2018
$ date --date="+ 5 minutes 15:00"
Mon 5 Nov 15:05:00 GMT 2018
$
works as I wanted it to.
So, it is a (known) bug; it is not the bug I thought it was.
Time to mark as solved.
Andrew
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i try to set linux date & time in specific format but it keep giving me error
Example :
date "+%d-%m-%C%y %H:%M:%S" -d "19-01-2017 00:05:01"
or
date +"%d-%m-%C%y %H:%M:%S" -d "19-01-2017 00:05:01"
keep giving me this error :
date: invalid date ‘19-01-2017 00:05:01'
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Greetings all !!
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1979102806
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