GNU bug report logs - #10699
bug of `date`: why 1/1/2012 is the second week of 2012?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Wang, YuanTao" <ytwang <at> freewheel.tv>

Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:06:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Wang, YuanTao" <ytwang <at> freewheel.tv>
To: 10699 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10699: bug of `date`: why 1/1/2012 is the second week of 2012?
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 02:25:59 -0600

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$ date -d "2012-01-01 00:00:00" +%U
01

but in "man date"
%U     week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)

Is it a bug?

$ uname -r
2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen


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