Re: date dosen't convert date from day-of-year

[Eric Blake]

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According to Mgr. Peter Tuharsky on 2/27/2007 2:00 AM:
> Hi
> 
> I have used 'date' command in Debian Sarge to compute the actual date
> from the day-of-year value. I have sent the (wrong) date e.q. 2007-01-48
> and the date has given me back the correct feb 17 00:00:00 CET 2007

That was in older versions of coreutils.

> 
> Now the date complains for bad date and gives nothing back!

This is intentional.  There are too many places where the old behavior of
accepting invalid dates led to surprising behavior.

> 
> Please, could there be some option to compute the right date from
> day-of-year again? Or should I use some other command?

$ date -u -d '2007-01-01 +48 days'
Sun Feb 18 00:00:00 UTC 2007

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