Re: bug in date

[Eric Blake]

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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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