Paul Eggert wrote:
Steve Cousins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
date Versions 5.96 and 5.97 (at least) have a bug when passing dates
that are greater than the actual number of days in a month. Previous
versions (most of the machines seem to have 5.2.1) would convert the
date to a correct date.
The change was advertised as a "new feature" in NEWS:
Dates like `January 32' with out-of-range components are now rejected.
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the reply.
Don't I love new "features" like this?! What is the purpose of this? I
guess I'll look it up. ... It looks like there was no discussion. Just a
quick statement.
How is it more useful to report an error rather than doing a meaningful
conversion?
date -d"20060201 - 1 day"
does not work. It reports Feb 2.
Try this:
date -u -d"2006-02-01 -1 day"
Well, by putting in the hyphens it does work. The -u (at least in this
example) doesn't seem to do anything. However, doing:
date.5.96 -u -d"20060201 -1 day"
reports
date.5.96: invalid date `20060201 -1 day'
whereas:
date.5.2.1 -u -d"20060201 - 1 day"
reports
Thu Feb 2 00:00:00 UTC 2006
Which is wrong but it at least tries to deal with dates in the form
YYYYMMDD. Is this a bug or a feature?
Thanks,
Steve
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