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Re: date 5.2.1 bug(?)
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Philip Rowlands |
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Re: date 5.2.1 bug(?) |
Date: |
Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:05:41 +0000 (GMT) |
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Kenny Stauffer wrote:
>The command "date -d a" produces "Mon Feb 28 20:00:00 EST 2005" when
>localtime is "Tue Mar 1 22:55 2005". "date -d aa" complains that aa is
>an invalid date. In fact, any single letter except "j" is a valid date.
>Is this a bug, or do I gravely misunderstand date's input format?
It's a valid sub-date; another way to specify timezones. See the "Time
zone items" info page, and this explanation:
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/timezone.htm
Cheers,
Phil
- date 5.2.1 bug(?), Kenny Stauffer, 2005/03/02
- Re: date 5.2.1 bug(?),
Philip Rowlands <=