Ah, that explains it! Thanks. On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jeremy M. Guthrie wrote: > > I have found a bug with 'date', it will jump a year the last few days of > > the year. > > Thank you for your report. But the behavior you are reporting is not > a bug but a misunderstanding of the date format specifications. > > > #The actual time/date > > [h-custmgmt-msn-1 guthrie 10:09am]~-> date > > Wed Dec 31 10:09:34 CST 2008 > > This probably isn't the issue but the default legacy date format is > ambiguous. CST isn't unique. For future reference using -R is a > better format and is found my places such as in mail date strings and > so forth. This is just a hint for the future. > > $ date -R > Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:28:33 -0700 > > > #It thinks it's 2009. It did this yesterday and the day before. > > [h-custmgmt-msn-1 guthrie 10:09am]~-> date "+%m-%d-%G" > > 12-31-2009 > > [h-custmgmt-msn-1 guthrie 10:09am]~-> date "+%G" > > 2009 > > That is true all week long. The %G is as shown: > > `%G' > The year corresponding to the ISO week number. This has the same > format and value as `%Y', except that if the ISO week number (see > `%V') belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used > instead. This is a GNU extension. > > The ISO week number is 2009. What you wanted was %Y if you wanted the > year in the current calendar year. > > `%Y' > year. This is normally at least four characters, but it may be > more. Year `0000' precedes year `0001', and year `-001' precedes > year `0000'. > > > Try this: > > $ date "+%m-%d-%Y" > 12-31-2008 > > Or better yet use the %F format specifying to use the full date in ISO > format. This is a GNU extension. > > $ date +%F > 2008-12-31 > > Bob
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