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Re: date problems
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: date problems |
Date: |
Fri, 05 May 2006 01:19:04 +0200 |
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Webb Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
> On WinXP, under cygwin:
>
> address@hidden date -d 'first friday'
> Fri May 5 00:00:00 EST 2006
> address@hidden date -d 'second friday'
> Fri May 5 00:00:01 EST 2006
^^
"second" does not mean what you think it means.
> Looks like date changes its mind on how to count.
The free format is inherently ambigous.
Andreas.
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