Re: suggested feautre: "date --debug" - print date parsing diagnostics

[Leslie S Satenstein]

I believe that the --debug is not necessary but your ideas are better served by improving man or info pages with good examples.

I find

date -d'+1day 14:00'           #

date -d'tomorrow 14:00'     #

works just fine as

date -d'14:00 today +1day'  #

or

date -d'today +1day +14:00'

an example from crontab

#to run something on the last day of the month  

#minute    hr   mnthday  Mth  DoW    COMMAND

30             14     28-31         *       *       [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /local/bin/run_this.sh

 

Regards

 Leslie

Mr. Leslie Satenstein

Montréal Québec, Canada