Re: Date calculations bug

[Jim Meyering]

Stefan Alpers <address@hidden> wrote:
> I probably found a bug in the core utils date package. Today
> (2005-12-02) I used date to calculate the date for 30 days in advance
> which returned 2005-01-01. this result is obviously wrong as it lies
> in the past. This was run on a Suse Linux 9.1 fully patched. I could
> reproduce these results on a Debian 3.1 fully patched.
> Attached you find a screenshot.

Thanks for the report, but that's not a bug.

You're using %G, which is the year corresponding to the
week number reported by %V: 52, in this case,
so the corresponding year is indeed 2005.

Perhaps you meant %Y?