Re: date: bug in calculating future dates

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Christian Hoffmann wrote:

> address@hidden:~ $ date -d "2006-08-07 +230 days"
> Sa Mär 24 23:00:00 CET 2007
> address@hidden:~ $ date -d "2006-08-07 +231 days"
> Mo Mär 26 00:00:00 CEST 2007
> Sunday is missing

Notice that in your configured timezone, the DST offset changes between 
these two dates ("CET" vs "CEST"). I'd suggest that accounts for the 
missing day, and that using the --utc flag to date will clear up any 
ambiguity.


Cheers,
Phil