RE: date

[Escarrilla, Harold]

$ date --version
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Harold Escarrilla
Morgan Stanley | Technology & Data
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Proulx [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:51 AM
To: Escarrilla, Harold (IT)
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: date

Escarrilla, Harold wrote:
> /u/hescarri 29$ date -d"2009-10-30 + 3 days"
> Sun Nov  1 23:00:00 EST 2009
> 
> It should be Nov 2.

What version of date are you using?

  date --version

I cannot recreate this behavior with a recent version of date.

  $ date -d"2009-10-30 + 3 days"
  Mon Nov  2 00:00:00 MST 2009

Bob

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