Re: bug in date?

[Bob Proulx]

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From: Klaus Umbach <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 17:11:26 +0100
To: Bob Proulx <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: bug in date?

I found the bug on 2.0 but with my version (4.5.2) at home, I've got the
same problem.


address@hidden:~$ date
Sam Dez 14 16:26:41 CET 2002
address@hidden:~$ date --date="yesterday 1 hour ago"
Son Dez 15 15:26:44 CET 2002
address@hidden:~$ date --version
date (coreutils) 4.5.2
Geschrieben von David MacKenzie.

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:48:03AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Klaus Umbach <address@hidden> [2002-12-12 15:09:42 +0100]:
> 
> > I think, I found a bug in date:
> 
> You did not say which version of date you were using.
> 
>   date --version
> 
> If you are using date version 2.0 or earlier that is certainly
> possible.  A large number of bug fixes and improvements went into the
> sh-utils-2.0.11 around October 2000.  Please install a newer version
> of the code.  The sh-utils package has been combined into coreutils
> and the current version at this moment is coreutils-4.5.3.
> 
> Bob

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