Re: changes (bugs?) in date --date=

[Paul Eggert]

"Gus Michel" <address@hidden> writes:

> (Besides the source) is there any documentation to reliably predict
> what is meant by date strings which mix [partial] absolute time
> references and relative ones?

Sorry, no.  Perhaps some day we can all come to a consensus on what
that sort of string should mean, or better yet, come up with an
easily-understood syntax that disambiguates the possibilities.  In the
mean time, the behavior is not documented for weird starings like
that, and users shouldn't depend on the behavior.

Personally, strings like '-4 days sat' make my head spin....