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date --yesterday wrong result

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From: Hugo Guérineau <hugo.guerineau <at> wwsight.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 11098-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11098: date --yesterday wrong result
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:17:32 +0200

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Hi Eric,

Thanks for your candor. I will download the source code as soon as I will
have some time to work on it. I really don't know the process to submit a
patch. Could you send me a read access to the latest release on you're
repository?

rgds,
Hugo


Le 27 mars 2012 19:38, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> a écrit :

> 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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