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Re: bug in date
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Eric Blake |
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Re: bug in date |
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Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:42:56 -0600 |
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According to Emily Lane on 7/9/2009 6:38 PM:
> I seem to have come across an anomaly in the date function. It only seems to
> happen for April 5th
> e.g.
>> date --date "20090405 24 hour" +%d
> 05
>> date --date "20090405 24 hour" +%m
> 04
>
> For any other day this correctly adds 24 hours to the date.
Not a bug; you are running into daylight savings issues. See the FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e
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- bug in date, Emily Lane, 2009/07/09
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