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Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: danilo <at> controlid.com.br
Subject: bug#13388: closed (Re: bug#13388: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid
 date". Bug?)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:34:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#13388: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 13388 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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

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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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