GNU bug report logs - #8648
bug in date?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Turner, Neil" <tnturner <at> amazon.com>

Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 23:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Turner, Neil" <tnturner <at> amazon.com>
To: "bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org" <bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug in date?
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:36:38 -0700

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Maybe found a bug in date...  the following command:

$ date --date="yesterday 00:00 +1 day"
Mon May  9 16:59:00 PDT 2011

The date as I type this is May 10th... so I was expecting the output to be:
Tues May  10 00:00:00 PDT 2011

Thanks,

Neil



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