[debbugs-tracker] bug#13388: closed (Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug? Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:02:50 -0200 User-agent: Webmail

Hi,

 

    When I try to get the date of 2012-10-21:

 

address@hidden:~# date -d 20121021

date: invalid date `20121021'

 

    Is this a bug? The result is the same both in Opensuse Tumbleweed and Ubuntu 12.04.

 

Thanks and sorry for disturbing,

Danilo Luvizotto

 

 

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#13388: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug? Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:33:09 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0

tag 13388 notabug
thanks

On 01/08/2013 06:02 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>   
> 
> Hi, 
> 
>  When I try to get the date of 2012-10-21: 
> 
> address@hidden:~#
> date -d 20121021 
> 
> date: invalid date `20121021' 
> 
>  Is this a bug?

No.  It is a factor of daylight savings in your timezone.  Midnight does
not exist in your locale on that particular date.

You can use --utc to force the use of times where daylight savings has
no impact.  For more information, see the FAQ:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e

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