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bug #9089: date --date "yesterday" wrong date after switching to Daylight Savings Time

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Submitted on:  Tue 25 May 2004 05:59:06 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: Closed

Tue 21 Dec 2004 07:33:55 AM UTC, comment #1:

I think this bug has been fixed. Here is a pointer to the patch:

<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00001.html>

Paul Eggert <eggert>
Project Administrator
Tue 25 May 2004 05:59:06 AM UTC, original submission:

date --date "yesterday" +%y%m%d does not do what's expected when issued right after midnight the day after switching to Daylight Savings Time, it looks like it reverses the time 24 hours, and I get the day before yesterday.

[root@crabofix syslog-ng]# date --version
date (coreutils) 4.5.3
Written by David MacKenzie.

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