It seems like there might be a problem with date addition when the base
date is specified as “day Monthname” instead of “Monthname day”, where
the offset is being interpreted as an absolute year value. This may be
locale-specific.
<hostname>:bin larry$ locale
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
<hostname>:bin larry$ ./date -d "$(./date -d today +%d\ %b) + 1 day"
Fri Dec 28 00:00:00 LMT 0001
<hostname>:bin larry$ ./date -d "$(./date -d today +%b\ %d) + 1 day"
Thu Dec 28 00:00:00 CST 2023
<hostname>:bin larry$ ./date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 9.4.97-98d463
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Written by David MacKenzie.
Thanks,
·Larry
