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

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 8/26/25 08:43, James Feeney wrote:
> Your definition of "longstanding" seems a bit disingenuous, since this change, from the default POSIX `date -u` 24 hour format to the 12 hour format, was made in 2020

? No it wasn't. I just now ran 'date -u' from the coreutils 5.93 (2005) 
shipped with Solaris 10, and it uses 12 hour format when run in a locale 
specifying that format. And I'm sure this behavior predates 2005.
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