Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:50:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/21039: date -v31d -v08m -v2000y Message-ID: <200009042050.NAA59912@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/21039; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Dietmar Tanke <dtanke@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/21039: date -v31d -v08m -v2000y Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:46:16 +0200 (CEST) On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Dietmar Tanke wrote: > >Description: > Date adjustment using the -v option seems not work for any date with > the 31th day of a month. Two examples. First one with a good result > and the second leads to an unexpected error. Is it a bug? > > dtanke$ date -v30d -v08m -v2000y > Wed Aug 30 21:27:24 CEST 2000 The order of the "-v"s are important. bash-2.03$ date -v8m -v31d -v2000y Thu Aug 31 22:45:03 CEST 2000 Try it next month and it'll work no matter what the order. :-) -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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