"Assaf Feuerstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As you can see the 1 month ago give me the current month instead of last
> month, and the 2 month ago give me an ok result.
> Is there a way to fix the 1 month ago that it will also work in the last
> day of the month?
Please read the section "Relative items in date strings" in the coreutils
manual:
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. For example:
$ date -R
Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:02:39 -0700
$ date --date='-1 month' +'Last month was %B?'
Last month was July?
$ date --date="$(date +%Y-%m-15) -1 month" +'Last month was %B!'
Last month was June!
Andreas.
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