Re: bug in date-command

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bob Proulx on 3/13/2009 3:03 PM:
>> This works perfect for all dates I used so far, apart from a (strangely 
>> enough) 20081026
>> date -d "20081026 1 days" +%Y%m%d
>> returns the same datecode: 20081026
> 
> You probably want to do the date calculation at noon to avoid problems
> near time change since one day is really 24 hours.  And working in UTC
> is safer.

In case you missed the previous message on this topic, the key point is
that not all days are 24 hours - depending on your time zone, some days
are 23 or 25 hours thanks to daylight savings, while the "1 days" modifier
always operates in terms of 24 hours.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-03/msg00160.html

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