Re: a bug in date concerning daylight saving time

[Eric Blake]

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According to Lao DanTong on 9/28/2007 5:43 PM:
> $ date --date 2007-02-30
> Fri Mar  2 00:00:00 BRT 2007
> 
> as the date used to do in old times. I don't think this could be harmful
> in any way, and the result IS meaningful.

But what if I wanted it to print this instead?
Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 BRT 2007

The point of making it an error was because no matter how you resolve an
ambiguity, someone else wants it resolved in the opposite direction.  The
easiest way to treat both demands equally is to complain loudly that it is
ambiguous, rather than trying one of the options and guessing wrong.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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