Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 23:41:48 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: johan@carlstedt.net Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Bug in the FreeBSD date command Message-ID: <200002022341.XAA03219@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Johan Carlstedt <johan.carlstedt@boo.com> of "Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:22:12 GMT." <38982F84.7D005BF@boo.com>
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> One line summary of the problem:
>
> date -v commmand returns incorrect date information for February/2000
>
> Full Description:
>
> When invoking the date command using the -v option dates for days in
> February/2000 are reported incorrectly:
>
> The second invokation below shows an example of the error:
>
> bash-2.02$ date -v2000y -v01m -v10d
> Mon Jan 10 21:41:19 GMT 2000
> bash-2.02$ date -v2000y -v02m -v10d
> Fri Mar 10 21:41:22 GMT 2000
> bash-2.02$ date -v2000y -v03m -v10d
> Fri Mar 10 21:41:25 GMT 2000
> bash-2.02$ date -v2000y -v04m -v10d
> Mon Apr 10 22:41:27 BST 2000
>
> Environment:
>
> FreeBSD plum.flirble.org 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #0: Fri Dec 31
> 11:35:21 GMT 1999 scot@plum2.flirble.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/PLUM2
> i386
This is not a bug. The -v arguments are applied in the order
specified. If you want the correct answer, apply the -v*d option
first. I believe the above failed because it was run on the
30th/31st of the month.
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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