Follow-up Comment #1, bug #16214 (project coreutils): Hmm. It seems -- and this is thanks to Michael Polyemakos and Stephen Harris -- what I found isn't a bug, but an undocumented (I think) "feature":
a->i k->m == +1 -> +12 hours n->y == -1 -> -12 hours ie the result of TZ=UTC date -d "12:00 $v" where v changes is: a --> Wed Mar 29 13:00:00 UTC 2006 b --> Wed Mar 29 14:00:00 UTC 2006 c --> Wed Mar 29 15:00:00 UTC 2006 d --> Wed Mar 29 16:00:00 UTC 2006 e --> Wed Mar 29 17:00:00 UTC 2006 f --> Wed Mar 29 18:00:00 UTC 2006 g --> Wed Mar 29 19:00:00 UTC 2006 h --> Wed Mar 29 20:00:00 UTC 2006 i --> Wed Mar 29 21:00:00 UTC 2006 k --> Wed Mar 29 22:00:00 UTC 2006 l --> Wed Mar 29 23:00:00 UTC 2006 m --> Thu Mar 30 00:00:00 UTC 2006 n --> Wed Mar 29 11:00:00 UTC 2006 o --> Wed Mar 29 10:00:00 UTC 2006 p --> Wed Mar 29 09:00:00 UTC 2006 q --> Wed Mar 29 08:00:00 UTC 2006 r --> Wed Mar 29 07:00:00 UTC 2006 s --> Wed Mar 29 06:00:00 UTC 2006 t --> Wed Mar 29 05:00:00 UTC 2006 u --> Wed Mar 29 04:00:00 UTC 2006 v --> Wed Mar 29 03:00:00 UTC 2006 w --> Wed Mar 29 02:00:00 UTC 2006 x --> Wed Mar 29 01:00:00 UTC 2006 y --> Wed Mar 29 00:00:00 UTC 2006 My use of "a year ago" is not really valid syntax, then. I was fooled by a lookalike! :-) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=16214> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils