Package: coreutils Version: 8.0-2 Severity: normal File: /bin/date lakeview ok % date; date -d"a fortnight ago"; date -d"14 days ago" Thu Dec 24 17:37:15 UTC 2009 Thu Dec 10 18:37:15 UTC 2009 Thu Dec 10 17:37:15 UTC 2009 lakeview ok % (export LC_ALL=C; date; date -d"a fortnight ago"; date -d"14 days ago") Thu Dec 24 17:39:29 UTC 2009 Thu Dec 10 18:39:29 UTC 2009 Thu Dec 10 17:39:29 UTC 2009
Obviously, "a fortnight ago" should be exactly equivalent to "14 days ago", but it's not. Daylight Saving Time is not relevant here because (a) this is UTC, (b) DST in the US ended in November, and (c) LC_ALL=C shows the same behavior. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.49-1 Access control list shared library ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.89-4 SELinux runtime shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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