Re: Linux Date Command gives wrong year with +%g

[Eric Blake]

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According to Eric Blake on 1/1/2010 8:12 AM:
> According to Gary Warner on 1/1/2010 8:09 AM:
>> NOWDATE=`date +%g%b%d`
> 
> Not a bug.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e

As a follow up, remember that today (and even as late as Jan 3, 2010) is
still part of ISO year 2009 week 53 (ISO years only change on Monday).
The effects of %g around the few days surrounding the calendar year
transition always seem to elicit spurious bug reports.  Rather than the
ISO year of %g, you want the calendar year of %y:

> %g = last two digits of year of ISO week number
  %y   last two digits of year (00..99)
  %Y   year

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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