Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: mwilson--- via talk <[email protected]> [ ... ]
> I think that "next month" adds the length of the current month to the > time. This is a 31-day month, we're quite late in it, so this hops > over all of February. > That makes sense. They told me to ask for "next month", but what they give me is "one month from today". Because if all I wanted was $((`date +%m` % 12 + 1)) then why the heck didn't I say so? (Hat tip to Mike Galea there.) So I can fix up my scripts. I suppose "last month" doesn't hit this problem (have to try on March 1), and that finding the right year for "last month" and "next month" will be good -- since December and January are the same length. [ ... ] > The phony natural language that date accepts is a hazard. Couldn't agree more, the state I'm in. Also pcal gags on some perfectly natural-looking directives. Many thanks, everybody. --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
