shellutils bug in the "date" command

[Dave_Mulligan]

We found a bug in the "date" command in shellutils.  (We renamed it "gnudate".)

Today is Monday, April 8th, the day after the Daylight Savings time change.

If we try to get the date of "last saturday", it reports Friday.  It looks like it reports Saturday, but then subtracts an hour because of DST, which makes it Friday.


/home/dmullig: gnudate --v                                                  
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0                                                     
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/home/dmullig: gnudate                                                      
Mon Apr  8 08:40:42 EDT 2002                                                

/home/dmullig: gnudate -d"last saturday"                                    
Fri Apr  5 23:00:00 EST 2002                                                

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