Re: a bug in date concerning daylight saving time

[Bob Proulx]

Lao DanTong wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
> >Maybe you want to argue that dates without times should mean the first
> >second of the day rather than 00:00:00.
> 
> Yes. this makes a lot of sense, don't you think? Notice that date reports 
> illegal date for a date specification like --date=2007-10-14+2hours, which 
> should be legal and render as 2007-10-14T03:00:00

What should be done for other invalid dates such as Feb 30th?

Bob

BTW... Here is the NEWS item for this change:

* Major changes in release 5.3.0 (2005-01-08) [unstable]

  Date syntax as used by date -d, date -f, and touch -d has been
  changed as follows:

    Dates like `January 32' with out-of-range components are now rejected.

    Dates can have fractional time stamps like 2004-02-27 14:19:13.489392193.

    Dates can be entered via integer counts of seconds since 1970 when
    prefixed by `@'.  For example, address@hidden' represents 1970-01-01 
00:05:21 UTC.

    Time zone corrections can now separate hours and minutes with a colon,
    and can follow standard abbreviations like "UTC".  For example,
    "UTC +0530" and "+05:30" are supported, and are both equivalent to "+0530".

    Date values can now have leading TZ="..." assignments that override
    the environment only while that date is being processed.  For example,
    the following shell command converts from Paris to New York time:

      TZ="America/New_York" date --date='TZ="Europe/Paris" 2004-10-31 06:30'

  `date' has a new option --iso-8601=ns that outputs
  nanosecond-resolution time stamps.