GNU bug report logs - #57834
Date Command Anomaly

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Martin Hughes <martin.j.hughes <at> btinternet.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Martin Hughes <martin.j.hughes <at> btinternet.com>
To: 57834 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57834: Date Command Anomaly
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:18:39 +0100 (BST)

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Dear Sir,
I have stumbled across this anomaly whilst processing a series of dates. 
I have not found any other legal date combination that generates this 
error. Perl time facilities seem to be affected by this too.

mjh <at> carnaby:~> date --date="2022/03/27 00:00:00"
Sun 27 Mar 00:00:00 GMT 2022

mjh <at> carnaby:~> date --date="2022/03/27 01:00:00"
date: invalid date ‘2022/03/27 01:00:00’

mjh <at> carnaby:~> date --date="2022/03/27 02:00:00"
Sun 27 Mar 02:00:00 BST 2022

The version of date is:
mjh <at> carnaby:~> date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.29
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by David MacKenzie.

The operating system is opensuse leap 15.2:
Linux version 5.3.18-lp152.106-default (geeko <at> buildhost) (gcc version 
7.5.0 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Nov 22 08:38:17 UTC 2021 (52078fe)

Martin Hughes

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