tag 13388 notabug thanks On 01/08/2013 06:02 AM, dan...@controlid.com.br wrote: > > > Hi, > > When I try to get the date of 2012-10-21: > > root@cidLogin:~# > date -d 20121021 > > date: invalid date `20121021' > > Is this a bug?
No. It is a factor of daylight savings in your timezone. Midnight does not exist in your locale on that particular date. You can use --utc to force the use of times where daylight savings has no impact. For more information, see the FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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