Outage Notification - date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:59:46 -0600 (CST), Mike wrote:
>
>> $ date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'
>> Thu Dec 10 20:00:00 CST 2009
>
>> > > To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
>> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto
>> > > or run:
>> > >
>> > > date -d 'date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC''
>
> Above is the mistake the replies in this thread refer to:
>
> $ date -d 'date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC''
> date: extra operand `UTC'
> Try `date --help' for more information.
>
> Whereas:
>
> $ date -d '2009-12-11 02:00:00 UTC'
> Fri Dec 11 03:00:00 CET 2009

Hehe. I see the issue. I think the problem is that most of us are
going to be humour impaired for the next 48 hours. Please excuse us
until Tuesday or Wednesday when we will have either appeased the rack
gods who require blood to work.. or we have been sacrificed to Old
Ones who run networking.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
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