Re: date bug report: %G gives incorrect year

[Andreas Schwab]

"matt smiglarski" <address@hidden> writes:

> The following shows how the year is not rolled back.
>
> # date
> Wed Jan  2 12:12:23 GMT 2008
> # date --date '2 days ago' +'%G-%m-%d %k:%M:%S'
> 2008-12-31 12:12:53

RTFM.

`%G'
     year corresponding to the ISO week number.  This has the same
     format and value as `%Y', except that if the ISO week number (see
     `%V') belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used
     instead.  It is normally useful only if `%V' is also used; for
     example, the format `%G-%m-%d' is probably a mistake, since it
     combines the ISO week number year with the conventional month and
     day.  This is a GNU extension.

Andreas.

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