shellutils bug in the "date" command

[email protected] Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:54:50 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.sh-utils.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

We found a bug in the "date" command in shellutils.  (We renamed it 
"gnudate".)

Today is Monday, April 8th, the day after the Daylight Savings time 
change.

If we try to get the date of "last saturday", it reports Friday.  It looks 
like it reports Saturday, but then subtracts an hour because of DST, which 
makes it Friday.


/home/dmullig: gnudate --v  
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0  
Written by David MacKenzie.  
  
Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO 
 
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE. 

/home/dmullig: gnudate  
Mon Apr  8 08:40:42 EDT 2002  

/home/dmullig: gnudate -d"last saturday"  
Fri Apr  5 23:00:00 EST 2002  

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