Re: Error with `/bin/date`

[Andreas Schwab]

"Robert Derryberry" <address@hidden> writes:

> Note the date is January 31st, not February 1st.  The resulting date
> math is incorrect.
>
> [LNXPROD1:/home/cfmc/telsam] cfmc% date
> Mon Jan 31 09:56:23 CST 2005
>
> [LNXPROD1:/home/cfmc/telsam] cfmc% date --date='next month' +%m
> 03
> [LNXPROD1:/home/cfmc/telsam] cfmc% date --date='next month' +%b
> Mar
> [LNXPROD1:/home/cfmc/telsam] cfmc% date --date='next month' +%B
> March

*Note (coreutils)Relative items in date strings::.

       The fuzz in units can cause problems with relative items.  For
    example, `2003-07-31 -1 month' might evaluate to 2003-07-01, because
    2003-06-31 is an invalid date.  To determine the previous month more
    reliably, you can ask for the month before the 15th of the current
    month.

Andreas.

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