GNU bug report logs - #50115
date command arithmetic involving the epoch produces "invalid date"

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jeremy Cantrell <jmcantrell <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 01:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 50115-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jeremy Cantrell <jmcantrell <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Gnulib bugs <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>, 50115-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50115: date command arithmetic involving the epoch produces
 "invalid date"
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 13:55:26 -0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Thanks for the bug report. I installed the attached patches to Gnulib 
and to Coreutils, and the fix should be in the next Coreutils release.
[0001-parse-datetime-allow-calculations-to-yield-1.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0001-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
[0002-date-test-against-bug-50115.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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