[tz] from tzdata2020a to tzdata2020b: iana, tzupdater, or local issue?

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Oct 20 20:55:19 UTC 2020


On 10/19/20 11:31 PM, adrian.lungu at orange.com wrote:
> touch -md 2020-10-12T22:53:00Z \
>                    tzdata2020c-rearguard.dir/pacificnew
> touch: invalid date format `2020-10-12T22:53:00Z'
> make[1]: *** [tzdata2020c-rearguard.tar.gz] Error 1

This is most likely because your operating system has an old 'touch' that does 
not support POSIX-2008 or later. Please see the workaround mentioned here:

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-October/029356.html

Or you can wait until 2020d comes out, which should be soon because of the 
Palestine change, and which should contain the workaround.


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