Good morning,
for the 1th of April 2013 the command date has this interesting behaviour:
$ date
Mon Apr 1 00:22:31 CEST 2013
$ date -d 'yesterday'
Sat Mar 30 23:22:38 CET 2013
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
If you need more information just ask and I will try to respond as soon as possible.
Thank you, best regards.
Ivan Lombardi Borgia