Steve Cousins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> date Versions 5.96 and 5.97 (at least) have a bug when passing dates
> that are greater than the actual number of days in a month. Previous
> versions (most of the machines seem to have 5.2.1) would convert the
> date to a correct date.
The change was advertised as a "new feature" in NEWS:
Dates like `January 32' with out-of-range components are now rejected.
> date -d"20060201 - 1 day"
>
> does not work. It reports Feb 2.
Try this:
date -u -d"2006-02-01 -1 day"
The "-u" is to avoid problems with DST transitions.
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