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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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Subject: Re: Request for commit to 4.0. Re: Odd date output 
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:34:45 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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C'mon, we don't need to fix this until April, why are you bringing it
up now?  Haha, just kidding.  Ick.  Yes, by all means please fix this!

- Jordan

> * keith@mail.telestream.com <keith@mail.telestream.com> [000218 15:01] wrote:
> > I'm running 3.4-Stable and have writen a realy nifty web based billing
> > program for us. In testing it I've run into a odd 'date' error that is
> > hosing my entire system. 
> > 
> > In portions of the script(s) I'm nabing the date as such
> > DATE=`/bin/date +%G%m%d` 
> > All works fine there and I get what I want. 
> > In other parts of the script(s) I use date in a different format
> > CURRENT_MONTH=`/bin/date +%m`
> > This also works fine with the desired output. 
> > BUT,,, when I test things to make sure is all fine I step up the  
> > CURRENT_MONTH  with this command
> > CURRENT_MONTH=`/bin/date -v March +%m`
> > This works fine for EVERY month except for May. When I change the
> > CURRENT_MONTH to be
> > CURRENT_MONTH=`/bin/date -v May +%m` It errors out big time with this. 
> > 
> > ----------
> > May: Cannot apply date adjustment
> > usage: date [-nu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]]
> > ... 
> >             [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]
> > ----------
> > 
> > Any clue as to why it would work fine on all other date adjustments with
> > May being the execption?
> > 
> > Thank you.
> 
> er, a pretty funny ommision in vary.c, Jordan, may I apply this patch
> to -current and -stable?
> 
> I guess it broke in going from 1.1 -> 1.2
> 
> :)
> 
> Index: vary.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/date/vary.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.7
> diff -u -u -r1.7 vary.c
> --- vary.c	1999/08/27 23:13:59	1.7
> +++ vary.c	2000/02/19 03:25:12
> @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
>  
>  static struct trans trans_mon[] = {
>    { 1, "january" }, { 2, "february" }, { 3, "march" }, { 4, "april" },
> -  { 6, "june" }, { 7, "july" }, { 8, "august" }, { 9, "september" },
> -  { 10, "october" }, { 11, "november" }, { 12, "december" },
> +  { 5, "may"}, { 6, "june" }, { 7, "july" }, { 8, "august" },
> +  { 9, "september" }, { 10, "october" }, { 11, "november" }, { 12, "december
" },
>    { -1, NULL }
>  };
>  
> thanks,
> -Alfred



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