I got a reply to my bug report on gnu.org which says: " From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> It works for me with coreutils 8.31 on RHEL 7 x86-64:
$ date +%-Y -d "- 2010 years" 9 Most likely you are running on a 32-bit machine, and dates in the year 9 cannot be represented in a 32-bit timestamp. So a simple fix would be for you to switch to a 64-bit machine. " I am using 64bit Ubuntu though. I have downloaded and compiled coreutils 8.31 to see if the command worked for me in the upgraded version but the error remains the same. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to coreutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1824688 Title: date+%-Y -d "- N years" errors when N > 111 Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I have been using 'date +%-Y -d "- 2010 years" in a script for years but today after using the script after upgrading to disco it has failed. After some experimentation it succeeds with upto 111 years but fails from 112 onwards. Error given is: 'date: invalid date '- 112 years'. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: coreutils 8.30-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-11.12-generic 5.0.6 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 14 10:59:36 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-08 (553 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2) SourcePackage: coreutils UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-13 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1824688/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
