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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:49:08 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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To: "Pagano, Tom - Portland, OR" <tom DOT pagano AT por DOT usda DOT gov>
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Subject: Re: date function: how many days in october are there?
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According to Pagano, Tom - Portland, OR on 9/29/2005 9:41 PM:
> I've noticed that the date function does something strange trying to access October 31st in a statement like 
>  
> $ date -d "1970-10-01 +1 month -1 day"
> as opposed to something like 
> $ date -d "1970-11-01 -1 day"
> which (I think??) should be functionally equivalent. The actual results of the 2nd are obviously preferrable to the 1st... but I do note something squirrly going on with the hours in both (daylight savings time?) 

Indeed it is daylight savings.  date has no cygwin-specific patches, but
the brand new coreutils 5.90 has been released upstream that has some
patches in date parsing.  Once I can get that packaged, you may want to
rerun your tests - if the bug is still present at that time, then report
it upstream.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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