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date --yesterday wrong result

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Hugo Guérineau <hguerine <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 11098-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11098: date --yesterday wrong result
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:38:13 -0600

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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.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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