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Re: Oddity or bug in GNU date installation?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Oddity or bug in GNU date installation? |
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Wed, 05 May 2010 08:33:20 -0600 |
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[bug-coreutils would have been the better choice to send this to, given
'date --help' output]
On 03/30/2010 02:40 AM, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> I'm running into a problem when calculating offsets (days)
> with GNU date (on a SuSE machine). It looks like a bug to me.
> (Or is it a summer time issue?
Yes, it's a daylight savings issue. From the coreutils FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e
> $ date --version
> date (GNU coreutils) 5.93
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Wow - that's five years old. We've fixed a number of bugs in date and
other coreutils in the meantime; you should seriously consider upgrading
to 8.5.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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