Subject: Re: bug#11098: date --yesterday wrong result

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:38:13 -0600

On 03/27/2012 03:15 AM, Hugo Guérineau wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thank you for this answer. My excpectations are not buged! ;) When
> someone ask me to tell him what is yesterday, even if we are early in
> the morning, I answer him the day before and not two days ago.

You are welcome to submit a patch to gnulib to change getdate.y, and to
coreutils to document your desired improved semantic change to relative
date computations.  It's just that it is such a complex patch, and the
fact that we have a documented workaround, that no one has been bothered
enough to submit a patch so far.

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