found 562485 coreutils/8.5-1 kthxbye Okay, I've found some interesting things that seem to demonstrate the problem better.
lakeview ok % date; date -d"a fortnight ago"; date -d"b fortnight ago"; date -d"1 fortnight ago"; date -d"1 fortnight ago a"; date -d"14 days ago" Sun Feb 27 17:28:09 UTC 2011 Sun Feb 13 18:28:09 UTC 2011 Sun Feb 13 19:28:09 UTC 2011 Sun Feb 13 17:28:09 UTC 2011 Sun Feb 13 18:28:09 UTC 2011 Sun Feb 13 17:28:09 UTC 2011 The issue here is that date is treating "a" and "b" as US military time zone specifiers. A is UTC+01:00 and B is UTC+02:00. This happens to clash with the use of the article "a" in English. I think the reasonable thing to do here is to treat "a" as an article (that is, == 1) if it proceeds a noun and a time zone specifier otherwise. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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