GNU bug report logs - #13388
Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: danilo <at> controlid.com.br

Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

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From: danilo <at> controlid.com.br
To: <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Cc: albert <at> controlid.com.br, david <at> controlid.com.br,
	fabio.ferreira <at> controlid.com.br
Subject: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:02:50 -0200

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Hi, 

 When I try to get the date of 2012-10-21: 

root <at> cidLogin:~#
date -d 20121021 

date: invalid date `20121021' 

 Is this a bug? The
result is the same both in Opensuse Tumbleweed and Ubuntu 12.04.


Thanks and sorry for disturbing, 

Danilo Luvizotto 

  
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Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:34:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: danilo <at> controlid.com.br
Cc: albert <at> controlid.com.br, david <at> controlid.com.br, 13388-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	fabio.ferreira <at> controlid.com.br
Subject: Re: bug#13388: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:33:09 -0700

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tag 13388 notabug
thanks

On 01/08/2013 06:02 AM, danilo <at> controlid.com.br wrote:
>   
> 
> Hi, 
> 
>  When I try to get the date of 2012-10-21: 
> 
> root <at> cidLogin:~#
> date -d 20121021 
> 
> date: invalid date `20121021' 
> 
>  Is this a bug?

No.  It is a factor of daylight savings in your timezone.  Midnight does
not exist in your locale on that particular date.

You can use --utc to force the use of times where daylight savings has
no impact.  For more information, see the FAQ:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e

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


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