GNU bug report logs - #6897
date -d '1991-04-14 +1 day' fails

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: 李嘉鹏 <lijpbasin <at> 126.com>

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 6897 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: "Alan Curry" <pacman-cu <at> kosh.dhis.org>
Cc: 6897 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 李嘉鹏 <lijpbasin <at> 126.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6897: date -d '1991-04-14 +1 day' fails
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:40:43 +0200

Alan Curry wrote:
...
> There might be less occurrences of this misunderstanding if we could teach
> date that -d 4/14/1991 is not actually a request for 4/14/1991 00:00:00, but
> "any time that existed during the day 4/14/1991", or perhaps a more specific
> "the first second of 4/14/1991".

Use the 12th hour of the day, "1991-4-14 12:00".
I suspect that there have been very few DST transitions
around midday.
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