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bug#37921: date -d "a day ago" differs from date -d "1 day ago"
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Bernhard Voelker |
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bug#37921: date -d "a day ago" differs from date -d "1 day ago" |
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Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:04:37 +0200 |
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On 2019-10-25 15:59, Matt Carter wrote:
> + date -d 'a day ago'
Please look at the output with --debug.
$ date --debug -d 'a day ago'
date: parsed zone part: UTC-01
[...]
The first 'a' is not parsed [1] as a synonym for "one day", but
rather as the "A" military timezone [2].
[1]
https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/lib/parse-datetime.y?id=06011ed74e#n1161
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_time_zones
Have a nice day,
Berny