[Pkg-qof-maintainers] Bug#383746: qof: FTBFS (hppa, sparc, m68k): timezone failures - help required

[Margarita Manterola]

Hola Neil Williams!

> Please can you run this simple series (on all affected boxes):
> date -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0000" +"%H %Z"
> date -u -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0000" +"%H %Z"
> date -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0500" +"%H %Z"
> date -u -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0500" +"%H %Z"
> date -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 -0500" +"%H %Z"
> date -u -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 -0500" +"%H %Z"

marga at paer:~$ date -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0000" +"%H %Z"
date: invalid date `1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0000'
marga at paer:~$ date -u -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0000" +"%H %Z"
date: invalid date `1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0000'
marga at paer:~$ date -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0500" +"%H %Z"
date: invalid date `1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0500'
marga at paer:~$ date -u -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0500" +"%H %Z"
date: invalid date `1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 +0500'
marga at paer:~$ date -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 -0500" +"%H %Z"
date: invalid date `1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 -0500'
marga at paer:~$ date -u -d"1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 -0500" +"%H %Z"
date: invalid date `1995-03-26 06:00:00.000000000 -0500'

I have no idea if the dates should be valid or not.

> Margarita: Could you check the timezone setting for the hppa box that
> completed the QOF build successfully, please? Would you also be able to
> run the above test 'date ... ' commands, just for comparison? Thanks.

marga at paer:~$ date
Mon Aug 21 14:34:57 MDT 2006

marga at paer:~$ date -u
Mon Aug 21 20:35:09 UTC 2006

marga at paer:~$ cat /etc/timezone
US/Mountain

Is that enough?

I'm not sure what is that you are trying to find out with this, let me know
what else I can do.


-- 
Love,
	Marga