bug#35289: date+%-Y -d "- N years" errors when N > 111

[Paul Eggert]

On 4/15/19 7:57 AM, O. Emmerson wrote:
> I have been using 'date +%-Y -d "- 2010 years" in a script for years but
> today after using the script after upgrading to Ubuntu 19.04 it has
> failed. 

It works for me with coreutils 8.31 on RHEL 7 x86-64:

$ date +%-Y -d "- 2010 years"
9

Most likely you are running on a 32-bit machine, and dates in the year 9
cannot be represented in a 32-bit timestamp. So a simple fix would be
for you to switch to a 64-bit machine.