Subject: [date command] Possible bug
From: Ivan Lombardi Borgia <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 11:13:04 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Good morning,

for the 1th of April 2013 the command *date *has this interesting behaviour:
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*$ date*
*Mon Apr  1 00:22:31 CEST 2013*
*$ date -d 'yesterday'*
*Sat Mar 30 23:22:38 CET 2013*
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As you can read the date is 30 March instead of 31 the time 23:22 instead
of 00:22

I could verify that on:

   - my personal machine running:
   Linux dip03-ubu 3.2.0-40-generic-pae #64-Ubuntu
   date --version: date (GNU coreutils) 8.13
   - production servers running:
   Linux ecomappsrv01 2.6.38-8-generic-pae #42-Ubuntu
   date --version: date (GNU coreutils) 8.5

That doesn't happen for year 2012 and 2014.
It happens even using -u option.
It does not happen forcing date:
*date -d '2013-04-01 00:22:00 1 day ago' *
*Sun Mar 31 00:22:00 CET 2013*
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If you need more information just ask and I will try to respond as soon as
possible.

Thank you, best regards.

Ivan Lombardi Borgia