Thank you, Eric and Berny, for the explanation.
I'm glad to see it's intentional. Thanks for teaching me about the military
time zones.
-Matt
On 10/25/19 8:59 AM, Matt Carter wrote:
When I ask date(1) for the date "a day ago", I get a different result from
when I ask date(1) for the date "1 day ago".
The results differ by 3 hours.
If I ask for UTC time, the results differ by 1 hour.
I'm not able to find anything in the manual to
On 2019-10-25 15:59, Matt Carter wrote:
> + date -d 'a day ago'
Please look at the output with --debug.
$ date --debug -d 'a day ago'
date: parsed zone part: UTC-01
[...]
The first 'a' is not parsed [1] as a synonym for "one day", but
rather as the "A" military timezone [2].
[1]
When I ask date(1) for the date "a day ago", I get a different result from
when I ask date(1) for the date "1 day ago".
The results differ by 3 hours.
If I ask for UTC time, the results differ by 1 hour.
I'm not able to find anything in the manual to explain this difference.
I realize making
