bug#79261: coreutils 9.7 "date -u" - timezone offset is in the wrong direction

James Feeney via GNU coreutils Bug Reports <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:02:40 -0600

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Arch Linux
coreutils 9.7-1

$ timedatectl;date;date -u
               Local time: Sun 2025-08-17 09:50:24 MDT
           Universal time: Sun 2025-08-17 15:50:24 UTC
                 RTC time: Sun 2025-08-17 15:50:24
                Time zone: US/Mountain (MDT, -0600)
System clock synchronized: yes
              NTP service: active
          RTC in local TZ: no
Sun Aug 17 09:50:24 AM MDT 2025
Sun Aug 17 03:50:24 PM UTC 2025

`timedatectl` is correct.
`date` is correct.
`date -u` is off by 2x the timezone offset, showing UTC as 6 hours earlier, which is wrong, instead of 6 hours later, which is correct.


Please fix.

James