Re: Bug in date command

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bob Proulx on 1/7/2009 3:12 PM:
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e
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> How does that look?

A couple of nits:

"The parsing of dates with date --date=STRING is a GNU extension and not
covered by any standards beyond those to which GNU holds itself."  Not
entirely true any longer, now that POSIX 2008 requires that 'touch -d
STRING' parse a limited format of ISO dates, and we implement that with
the same date parsing engine as our (true GNU extension) 'date -d'.  On
the other hand, since we don't yet accept 'T' in an ISO date (POSIX allows
the alternative of space, which we do parse), there is still some hacking
to be done on getdate.y.  But yes, in general, we parse many more STRINGs
as dates than what POSIX requires.

"The %Y and %U options work in combination."  To be fair, we should state
that the %Y and your choice of %U/%W work in combination (%W if you want
Monday, %U if you want Sunday as the first day of the week).

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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