> > however, i have a user who thinks the new behavior is broken and wont take > > my > > word for it :) ... so which behavior is the correct one ? > > The documentation suggests that the new behavior is correct.
Yeah, documentation and behaviour match but it changes decade old semantics. Previous versions of GNU date (I checked up to V 1.12) interpeted '1 hours 1 minutes ago' as -61 minutes. This change breaks all scripts written in the last ~10 years which use this idiom. Ciao, ET. PS: I'm not subscribed to the ML. Please CC on reply. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
