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bug#6236: Bug report in Date Command


From: Eric Blake
Subject: bug#6236: Bug report in Date Command
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 08:28:13 -0600
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On 05/20/2010 08:07 PM, lijian 65631 wrote:
> Dear David,

This is a mailing list frequented by lots of readers.  I'm not David,
but I can reply.

> 
> When I input the comman 'date "+%Y%m%d" -d "1986-05-04 1 day"' to get the
> next day of '1986-05-04', I get the result as below.
> 
> Maybe it is a bug of Date command , Please help to find it, Thanks.

Thanks for the report.  However, it is most likely the only bug here is
your understanding of how date operates around daylight savings events:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e

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