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--- Begin Message ---Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: normal Hello Maintainer, I have a problem which create errors with date. Is it right, that the 24h time 2009-10-19 00:00:01 which is one second after midnight, is realy 2009-10-19 00:00:01 AM in US-TIME format? For me as I have learned in school for 30 years, the AM time is from 00:00:00 in the morning to 11:59:59 noon and the PM time is from 12:00:00 to 23:59:59 midnight. The output of "date" is realy confusing. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/9351947 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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--- Begin Message ---Hello Bob, thanks for the clarification. Now I have to rewrite a bunch of scripts on the intranet servers. I close the bug now. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant Am 2009-10-18 00:24:51, schrieb Bob Proulx: > Hello Michelle, > > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > thank you for your answer, but if I use > > date --date="2009-10-19 00:00:01 AM" --rfc-822 > > I get the error: > > date: invalid date `2009-10-19 00:00:01 AM' > > Ah... I misunderstood your question. Sorry about that. I had > thought you were asking if 00:00:01 was AM or PM and not whether date > should parse it. > > With this clarification first I would say that I would not consider > "2009-10-19 00:00:01 AM" to be a valid US time string with a "00" hour > and followed by "AM" or "PM". The "00" would only be seen with > 24-hour time and 24-hour time never has a AM/PM qualifier. Although > times written by people have a large poetic license for creative > constructs and people can sometimes be very creative. :-) > > In regards to date parsing, in the GNU Coreutils date manual in the > "Time of day items" node it says: > > If the time is followed by `am' or `pm' (or `a.m.' or `p.m.'), HOUR > is restricted to run from 1 to 12, and `:MINUTE' may be omitted (taken > to be zero). `am' indicates the first half of the day, `pm' indicates > the second half of the day. In this notation, 12 is the predecessor of > 1: midnight is `12am' while noon is `12pm'. (This is the zero-oriented > interpretation of `12am' and `12pm', as opposed to the old tradition > derived from Latin which uses `12m' for noon and `12pm' for midnight.) > > This is why an hour of "00" is invalid when followed by "AM" but "01" > is okay. It should be "12" in that "00" case. > > $ date --date="2009-10-19 12:00:01 AM" --rfc-822 > Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:01 -0600 > > Does that satisfactorily resolve the issue? > > Bob ------------------------ END OF REPLIED MESSAGE ------------------------ -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/9351947 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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