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bug#9718: bugs in `date` command?


From: Bryan Lee
Subject: bug#9718: bugs in `date` command?
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:47:34 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Thus Eric Blake hast written on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 07:59:40AM -0600, and, 
according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
> On 10/11/2011 01:31 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>> Thank you for the report, however I don't see what's wrong.
>> I guess you meant "second wednesday" - which you probably expected
>> to display Oct 19th?

Exactly.

>> As 'second' is already used for the time unit 'second', it cannot
>> be used as an ordinal number for 2nd.

I see that now.  I think I read the definition os "second" when I went
through the info page, but I totally missed the signifigence.  Especially
since "third" worked.

> As currently coded in the grammar, this is correct.  But if someone were  

I agree.

Thank you Eric Blake and Bernhard Voelker for your assistance.  I
appologize for my error.





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