On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:53:10PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Justin Pryzby wrote: > > coreutils: date return 2005-03-01 for --date "last month" > > http://bugs.debian.org/301972 > > > > The quoted manual says that -1 month might actually lie in the current > > month. It doesn't say that date can't subtract one from the current > > month to give the first day of the previous month (are there even any > > cases where the 1st doesn't exist?). > > The problem the original poster reported was this: > > date > Tue Mar 29 14:38:04 CEST 2005 > > date --date "1 month ago" > Tue Mar 1 14:35:31 CET 2005 Oops, you're right. I agree that this case is adequately covered by documentation. For some reason I was confused while reading the bug logs and though that date wasn't handling 'Mar 1 - 1 month'.
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