Thanks for the report.
I can't reproduce it using the latest test release on any of
the systems I've tried. I always get this:
$ date +%w --date "jan 1 2000"
6
$ date +%w --date "jan 1 2001"
1
Would you please see if you can reproduce that
problem using the latest test release?
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/sh-utils-2.0j.tar.gz
Sue Bauer-Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| [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.
