Re: date gives error on valid input

[Eric Blake]

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According to Carlos Carvalho on 12/24/2008 9:07 PM:
> % date -d 2008-10-19
> date: invalid date `2008-10-19'
> 
> This happens with 5.97 and 6.10 in Debian.

Thanks for the report.  I can't reproduce it, but I might have an idea;
did you type this in, or copy and paste from somewhere else?  There was a
recent report of someone doing a copy-and-paste, where the OP ended up
pasting a UTF character that has the same glyph but different bytes than
'-', and where he discovered this dilemma by repeating the copy-and-paste
action as input to od.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-12/msg00063.html

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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