Subject: Re: bug#17161: closed (Re: bug#17161: Bug in date arithmetic of date)

From: "Marc R.J. Brevoort" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 10:17:55 +0200 (CEST)

Hello,

As a heads-up, the explanation that this is due to time zone+locale doesn't make sense:

mrjb@THE-D-MRJB:~$ date --utc -d "2014-03-11 12:34:56 -1 day" +"%Y-%m-%d 
%H:%M:%S"
2014-03-12 13:34:56
mrjb@THE-D-MRJB:~$ date --utc -d "2014-03-11 12:34:56 -2 days" +"%Y-%m-%d 
%H:%M:%S"
2014-03-12 14:34:56
mrjb@THE-D-MRJB:~$ date --utc -d "2014-03-11 12:34:56 -3 days" +"%Y-%m-%d 
%H:%M:%S"
2014-03-12 15:34:56

The more days I subtract, the more hours are added. If this were a time 
zone issue, the amount of hours added would be constant but the 
resulting date would not.

Best,
Marc

On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, GNU bug Tracking System wrote:

> Your bug report
>
> #17161: Bug in date arithmetic of date
>
> which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.
>
> The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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> 17161: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17161
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