Stefan Alpers wrote: > I probably found a bug in the core utils date package.
Thanks for reporting the problem. However you are using the %G format. Could you say why? There are so many misconceptions about week numbers. > Today (2005-12-02) I used date to calculate the date for 30 days in > advance which returned 2005-01-01. this result is obviously wrong as > it lies in the past. This was run on a Suse Linux 9.1 fully > patched. I could reproduce these results on a Debian 3.1 fully > patched. Attached you find a screenshot. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:>date +"%G-%m-%d" > 2005-12-02 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:>date -d +30days +"%G-%m-%d" > 2005-01-01 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:>date --version > date (coreutils) 5.2.1 The %G format is "the 4-digit year corresponding to the %V week number". That is not the same as the year at that time. Please use the %Y format instead. And in fact for the format string you are using the %F is simplest. date -d +30days +%F 2006-01-01 Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
