[pooh doc]$ date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
Written by David MacKenzie.
Above as included with RedHat v6.2 distribution. I just ran across
something interesting I thought maybe someone could help me with. I
checked the man page, and info page but have been unable to find any
additional references.
I've written a shell script that determines the 2nd Thurs of the next
month (so I can email meeting notices in a timely fashion). My calculations
work great, for the current year. where I ran into a problem was when
asking 'date' to return information based on a 'specified' year.
The least complicated examples:
I started my test here since I wanted to make sure that the script
would work properly going into next year so I tested the following:
[pooh doc]$ date +%w --date "jan 1 2001"
6
The first day of Jan is a Saturday for the year 2000. Wrong answer.
[pooh doc]$ date +%w --date "jan 1 2000"
6
Obviously correct.
[pooh doc]$ date +%w --date "jan 1 next year"
1
Correct. Expected this when specifying '2001'.
[pooh doc]$ date +%w --date "jan 1 this year"
1
We don't recognize 'this year' correctly?
[pooh doc]$ date +%w --date "jan 1 "
6
Current year assumed.
Did I miss something somewhere??
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