GNU bug report logs - #53033
date has multiple "first saturday"s?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Darryl Okahata <darryl_okahata <at> keysight.com>

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 18:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: 53033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: darryl_okahata <at> keysight.com
Subject: bug#53033: date has multiple "first saturday"s?
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 23:10:18 +0100

On Jan 05 2022, Darryl Okahata via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:

>         $ date -d "first saturday"
>         Sat Jan  8 00:00:00 PST 2022
>
> Unless there is some weird definition of "first Saturday", shouldn't this be
> the 1st (New Year's Day)?

Try date --debug.

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