On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Mats Blomstrand wrote: > $ gdate -d "saturday 24:00" > gdate: invalid date `saturday 24:00'
That's not allowed; the hour must be 00-23, according to the documentation. >And it gets even more strange when one asking for calculations: > > $ gdate -d "sunday 00:01" > Sun Dec 12 00:01:00 CET 2004 > > $ gdate -d "sunday 00:01 +3 hours" > Sun Dec 12 01:58:07 CET 2004 To rephrase that one and make it a little more obvious what I think's happening: $ date -d 'next sunday 00:01 +0003 +1 hour' i.e. you're asking to offset the timezone by three minutes To get the calculation you want, try: $ date -d 'sunday 00:01 3hour' Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
