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Incorrect relative dates the day after DST switchover

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: chip <at> seraphine.us
Cc: 11101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11101: Incorrect relative dates the day after DST switchover
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:38:39 -0600

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On 03/27/2012 11:34 AM, chip <at> seraphine.us wrote:
> Well, if one assumes the point of allowing 'human-friendly' relative dates
> such as 'yesterday' is to make usage more intuitive, then the
> 24-hour-offset is probably incorrect behavior.  That would explain the
> quantity of bug reports you are seeing.
> 
> Perhaps the 'yesterday' directive ought to just go ahead and assume the
> recommended noon reference point, rather than the current moment?  That
> would certainly reflect the general meaning of the term 'yesterday' more
> accurately.
> 
> It seems odd to explicitly permit a natural-language term and then use a
> definition for it that differs from what a natural-language user probably
> means.

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

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