date -d could be more forthcoming in what went wrong

Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> 01 Dec 2002 07:52:50 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.sh-utils.bugs
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$ date -d 'Tuesday 24:00 UTC'
date: invalid date `Tuesday 24:00 UTC'

well, it could tell me what part of my input is bothering it, Tuesday,
24:00, or UTC.  It turns out all I needed to do was

$ date -d 'Tuesday 23:59 UTC'
Wed Dec  4 07:59:00 GMT-8 2002
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