-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 1/1/2010 8:12 AM: > According to Gary Warner on 1/1/2010 8:09 AM: >> NOWDATE=`date +%g%b%d` > > Not a bug. > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e
As a follow up, remember that today (and even as late as Jan 3, 2010) is still part of ISO year 2009 week 53 (ISO years only change on Monday). The effects of %g around the few days surrounding the calendar year transition always seem to elicit spurious bug reports. Rather than the ISO year of %g, you want the calendar year of %y: > %g = last two digits of year of ISO week number %y last two digits of year (00..99) %Y year - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAks+FKMACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAPPQCgjCFU10FQ2Mvut6GbSJOEkyE1 PbkAniE2WBWcSplD14Q5muxGn8uksrfH =LLVK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
