date --date "1 month ago"

Mixo Shiburi <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:23:14 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.sh-utils.bugs
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The date command seems to have an issue with months ending on the 31st.
This is an example of the behaviour:

theden:~ # date -s "31 July 2006 14:07"
Mon Jul 31 14:07:00 SAST 2006
theden:~ # date --date "1 month ago"
Sat Jul  1 14:07:12 SAST 2006

theden:~ # uname -a
Linux theden 2.4.21-278-default #1 Mon Mar 7 09:14:15 UTC 2005 i686 unknown



OS:use Linux Enterprise 8, SP 4
Version
mixo@theden:~> date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
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