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bug#13388: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?
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Eric Blake |
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bug#13388: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug? |
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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:33:09 -0700 |
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tag 13388 notabug
thanks
On 01/08/2013 06:02 AM, address@hidden wrote:
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> Hi,
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> When I try to get the date of 2012-10-21:
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> address@hidden:~#
> date -d 20121021
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> date: invalid date `20121021'
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> Is this a bug?
No. It is a factor of daylight savings in your timezone. Midnight does
not exist in your locale on that particular date.
You can use --utc to force the use of times where daylight savings has
no impact. For more information, see the FAQ:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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