Package: coreutils Version: 8.21-1 Severity: minor File: /bin/date These work as expected:
$ date -d '1 hour' Die Nov 19 11:21:35 CET 2013 $ date -d '0 hour' Die Nov 19 10:21:37 CET 2013 $ date -d '1 hour ago' Die Nov 19 09:21:40 CET 2013 This gives a wrong answer, and no parsing error: $ date -d 'a hour ago' Die Nov 19 11:21:44 CET 2013 It looks like single characters are parsed as hour offsets: $ date -d 'a' Die Nov 19 02:00:00 CET 2013 $ date -d 'b' Die Nov 19 03:00:00 CET 2013 $ date -d 'c' $ date -d 'h' Die Nov 19 09:00:00 CET 2013 $ date -d 'o' Mon Nov 18 23:00:00 CET 2013 $ date -d 'p' Mon Nov 18 22:00:00 CET 2013 I couldn't find anything about that in the info documentation. This would be a bit more correct, but gives an error: $ date -d 'an hour ago' date: invalid date 'an hour ago' $ echo $TZ Europe/Vienna $ locale LANG=de_AT.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=de_AT:de LC_CTYPE="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_AT.UTF-8" LC_ALL= -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.11-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-1 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-1 ii libc6 2.17-93 ii libselinux1 2.1.13-3 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
