Re: r1.100 of getdate.y changed 'ago' behavior

[Edgar Toernig]

> > however, i have a user who thinks the new behavior is broken and wont take 
> > my 
> > word for it :) ... so which behavior is the correct one ?
>
> The documentation suggests that the new behavior is correct.

Yeah, documentation and behaviour match but it changes decade
old semantics.  Previous versions of GNU date (I checked up to
V 1.12) interpeted '1 hours 1 minutes ago' as -61 minutes.
This change breaks all scripts written in the last ~10 years
which use this idiom.

Ciao, ET.

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