Eric Blake wrote: > According to Heiko Schlichting on 3/30/2009 7:09 AM: > > thank you for your quick response. I dont't send this answer to the list as > > this is a frequent question and bothering people is not my intention. > > > > But the question is frequent as this a really unexpected behavior. You can > > document it and improve the FAQ (which does not really describe this case > > even after reading FAQ 24 multiple times) but as it is so unexpected, > > I doubt that this question will cease. > > If our FAQ doesn't answer the frequent question, then we should improve > it. Hence, involving the list is the right thing, when you are arguing > that the FAQ is insufficient.
I have added to the FAQ entry in order to better address this issue. Hopefully it explains this case better now. > >> If you have a suggestion on how to improve the FAQ, we are all ears. Yes, please. > > I don't know about a similar single-call workaround for 'last month' as it > > is not possible to specify '15th of the actual month' without calling date > > to get the actual month first. Correct. You must call date first to calculate the month first. I have added some examples of this in the FAQ. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
