GNU bug report logs - #17765
julian date is not what you think

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Steve Zornes <boardstretcher <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Steve Zornes <boardstretcher <at> gmail.com>
To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: julian date is not what you think
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:56:25 +0000

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the date command uses %j to specify number of days since beginning of year. It looks as though %j is meant to mean Julian day which is ACTUALLY the number of days since the julian calendar started. Currently 2,000,000 or so.
number of days since the beginning of the year is called ordinal date and should be specified with a %o 
just a thought. 		 	   		  
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