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last-month bug on 31st
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richard lucassen |
Subject: |
last-month bug on 31st |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Jan 2003 11:22:30 -0000 |
While writing a bash-script yesterday, I found this weird behaviour in
'date' on a RedHat-7.2 machine:
# date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
# date
Wed Jan 1 11:36:46 CET 2003
# date -d 1-month-ago +%b
Dec
# date --set 'Tue Dec 31 0:00:00 CET 2002'
Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 CET 2002
# date -d 1-month-ago +%b
Dec
# date -d last-month +%b
Dec
# date -d 2-months-ago +%b
Oct
# date --set 'Tue Dec 30 23:59:00 CET 2002'
Mon Dec 30 23:59:00 CET 2002
# date -d 1-month-ago +%b
Nov
# date -d 2-months-ago +%b
Oct
Same goes for 31st of October, I didn't test any further.
HTH,
Richard.
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