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4 invalid dates reported by "date"

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54916: closed (4 invalid dates reported by "date")
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:20:02 +0000

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From: "Martins Ozolins" <mo98 <at> inbox.lv>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: 4 invalid dates reported by "date"
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:30:04 +0300

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Martins Ozolins <mo98 <at> inbox.lv>
Cc: 54916-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54916: 4 invalid dates reported by "date"
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 12:19:38 -0700

On 4/13/22 06:30, Martins Ozolins via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
>     ozoma <at> ozoma-ThinkPad-X250:$ date +%s --date="1981-04-01"
>     date: invalid date ‘1981-04-01’

This is because your invocation is equivalent to:

date +%s --date="1981-04-01 00:00:00"

and there was no midnight at that date in Latvia.

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