It has been a year in the bug tracker system without any response. So I am assuming the issue is no longer relevant. Closing the bug.
Bob Bob Proulx wrote: > Sandoval, Juan wrote: > > vhost01.dca.int: ~ % /usr/local/gnu/bin/date --date "7 days + 11-jul-2010" > > /usr/local/gnu/bin/date: invalid date `7 days + 11-jul-2010' > > Thank you for the report. Often here I might say something to the > effect that I can't recreate the problem. But in this case I can't > recreate the success! As far as I know that isn't the accepted > syntax. It should be the other way around. This would work for > example. > > date --date "11-jul-2010 + 7 days" > > > However it works fine on our other server that we have not patched yet. > > > > vhost01.vgs.int: ~ % % /usr/local/gnu/bin/date --date "7 days + > > 11-jul-2010" > > Sun Jul 18 00:00:00 PDT 2010 > > Who am I to dispute an example such as that! > > What are the versions of those two different date commands? > > /usr/local/gnu/bin/date --version > > Is this a version of the coreutils that you compiled yourself or from > some other source? GNU is all about the source. > > Thanks > > Bob > > >
