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Re: How to calculate date relative to another date?


From: Peng Yu
Subject: Re: How to calculate date relative to another date?
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 20:02:11 -0500

> Seems to work fine when date specification is not quite as ambiguous
> as "2018/05".
>
> $ date --iso --date='2018-05-01 5 years ago'
> 2013-05-01

What is special about --iso? If I use the following date string, I get
a future time. Why?

$ date --date='2018-05-01 4 years 11 months ago' +%Y%m
202106

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Regards,
Peng



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