On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Kenny Stauffer wrote: >The command "date -d a" produces "Mon Feb 28 20:00:00 EST 2005" when >localtime is "Tue Mar 1 22:55 2005". "date -d aa" complains that aa is >an invalid date. In fact, any single letter except "j" is a valid date. >Is this a bug, or do I gravely misunderstand date's input format?
It's a valid sub-date; another way to specify timezones. See the "Time zone items" info page, and this explanation: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/timezone.htm Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
