#1151099 date: invalid date '1942-04-03' for Europe/Helsinki timezone

Package:
coreutils
Source:
coreutils
Description:
GNU core utilities
Submitter:
Rostislav Kouznetsov
Date:
2026-10-17 09:03:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1151099#5
Date:
2026-10-17 08:53:40 UTC
From:
To:
Not for immediate action, just to keep a record of it for the case if
someone will eventually push it through.

Way to reproduce:

$ TZ=Europe/Helsinki date -d '1942-04-03'

The same spell works for 1942-04-02 and 1942-04-04.

Similar problem as in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695005
(from 2012) still reproducible via

$ TZ=Europe/Budapest date -d '1954-05-23'


The workarounds in that report are still valid.
TL;DR: use 'date -u' instead of just 'date'.


Thank you!

BR,
Rostislav