bug#22397: Date -- Format arithemtic yields unexpected results

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 22397 notabug
close 22397
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 18/01/16 07:16 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 18/01/16 03:53, Adam Danischewski wrote:
> > $> date
> > Sun Jan 17 22:49:40 EST 2016
> > $> date -d"04:00"
> > Sun Jan 17 04:00:00 EST 2016
> > $> date -d"04:00 +1 day"
> > Sun Jan 17 22:00:00 EST 2016
> >
> > To fix this, a work around for me now is:
> > $> date -d"$(date -d"04:00") +1 day"
> > Mon Jan 18 04:00:00 EST 2016
>
> The +1 is taken as a timezone offset.
> You'll want:
>
> date -d '04:00 today +1 day'
>
> Note also the relative date discussion at:
> http://bugs.gnu.org/18159

date now supports the "--debug" option
to make such troubleshooting easier.

With no further comments in over a year,
I'm closing this bug.

-assaf