date: add support for TZ='timezone' date_spec syntax for GNU compatibility #8607
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cakebaker
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| let output = result.stdout_str(); | ||
| // Should show the parsed date in UTC timezone | ||
| assert!(output.contains("2020-01-01 12:00:00+00:00")); |
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Hm, with GNU date I get a different result:
$ date --rfc-3339=seconds --date='TZ="UTC" 2020-01-01 12:00:00'
2020-01-01 13:00:00+01:00
$ cargo run -q date --rfc-3339=seconds --date='TZ="UTC" 2020-01-01 12:00:00'
2020-01-01 12:00:00+00:00
As I'm in UTC+1, it looks like GNU date gives some local setting a higher priority than the TZ="UTC" in the date string.
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| // Also verify with regular format that it doesn't contain 2020 | ||
| let regular_result = new_ucmd!() | ||
| .arg("-d") | ||
| .arg("TZ=\"INVALID_TZ\" 2020-01-01") | ||
| .succeeds(); | ||
| assert!(!regular_result.stdout_str().contains("2020")); |
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Here I also get a different result with GNU date as the output contains the specified date:
$ date --date="TZ=\"INVALID_TZ\" 2020-01-01"
Wed Jan 1 01:00:00 AM CET 2020
$ cargo run -q date --date="TZ=\"INVALID_TZ\" 2020-01-01"
Thu Sep 11 10:33:02 CEST 2025
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Isn't this feature more appropriate to be implemented in the parse_datetime crate? The parse_datetime crate already has the infrastructure to make the parsing of the "TZ='timezone'" spec easy. We are waiting for this PR. Since it has been stalled for some time, I will take up and implement it sometime this weekend. |
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@yuankunzhang yeah, good call. thanks :) |
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