Re: date 2.0: BUG OR FEATURE?

[Jim Meyering]

Wolfgang Reimer <address@hidden> wrote:
> BUG OR FEATURE?
>
> IMHO, when specifying a date via --date="<date> + <offset>" and if
> <date> is before "Sun Mar 31 03:00:00 UTC 1996" and "<date> +
> <offset>"       is after "Sun Mar 31 01:59:59 UTC 1996" then the time
> shown by "date" is incorrect (by one hour):
>
>    address@hidden reimer]$ date -u -d '1996-03-31 01:59:59 UTC 1 sec'
>    Sun Mar 31 03:00:00 UTC 1996
>
> The following is o.k. ("<date> + <offset>" is before "Sun Mar 31
> 02:00:00 UTC 1996"):
>
>    address@hidden reimer]$ date -u -d '1996-03-31 01:59:59 UTC 0 sec'
>    Sun Mar 31 01:59:59 UTC 1996

Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest test release.
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/