Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:42:15 -0400 From: Joe Abley <jabley@mfnx.net> To: brian@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/27796: Use of -v flag of date(1) can give non-intuitive results Message-ID: <20010531194215.S29237@buddha.home.automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <200105312329.f4VNTUE08684@freefall.freebsd.org>; from brian@FreeBSD.org on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:29:30PM -0700 References: <200105312329.f4VNTUE08684@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:29:30PM -0700, brian@FreeBSD.org wrote: > Your example is avoided in the man page as this rounding is done by > mktime(3). Another good (confusing) example is > ``date -v3m -v29d -v-1m''. > > If you (or anyone) care to produce documentation patches, I'm certainly > happy to see if I can get them past a freebsd-doc review :) It did occur to me after I sent this in that the problem was really that I was asking an ambiguous question, and I have not yet decided what the "correct" answer to "add one month" is in these circumstances. I suspect there is no good answer :) I will see if I can cast some words to succinctly describe these kinds of potential pitfalls for the date(1) page. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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