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According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/28/2006 6:20 PM:
> Hi
> I have a Red Hat ES4 server. I ran the following date command on 29 
> December 2006 to obtain the month number for 10 months ago.
> Result should be 02 (Feb) but I got 03 (March)

Thanks for the report.  However, this is not a bug.  There is no Feb 29
2006, so the date calculation settled on Mar 1 2006 instead.  That's why
the documentation recommends performing month-based calculations centered
around the middle of a month (also around the middle of a day, to minimize
daylight savings issues, which have similar discontinuities).

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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