"Robert Derryberry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Note the date is January 31st, not February 1st. The resulting date
> math is incorrect.
>
> [LNXPROD1:/home/cfmc/telsam] cfmc% date
> Mon Jan 31 09:56:23 CST 2005
>
> [LNXPROD1:/home/cfmc/telsam] cfmc% date --date='next month' +%m
> 03
> [LNXPROD1:/home/cfmc/telsam] cfmc% date --date='next month' +%b
> Mar
> [LNXPROD1:/home/cfmc/telsam] cfmc% date --date='next month' +%B
> March
*Note (coreutils)Relative items in date strings::.
The fuzz in units can cause problems with relative items. For
example, `2003-07-31 -1 month' might evaluate to 2003-07-01, because
2003-06-31 is an invalid date. To determine the previous month more
reliably, you can ask for the month before the 15th of the current
month.
Andreas.
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