It doesn't work well in sh-utils-1.16-23 It had me confused until Pete
Peterson said the old version has that problem.
Thanks anyway
Matt Wilson wrote:
>
> Works fine in sh-utils-2.0.1
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:37:22AM -0300, Ivan Jager wrote:
> > How can this be???
> > "today" is the same as "yesterday" or "tomorrow"!!
> >
> > [ivanj@radius ivanj]$ date
> > Wed Jan 19 10:14:12 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@radius ivanj]$ date --date yesterday
> > Wed Jan 19 10:15:19 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@radius ivanj]$ date --date tomorrow
> > Wed Jan 19 10:15:27 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@radius ivanj]$ date --date "1 day ago"
> > Tue Jan 18 10:14:39 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@radius ivanj]$ date --date "1 day"
> > Thu Jan 20 10:14:50 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@radius ivanj]$
> >
> > On a different box it does what is expected:
> > [ivanj@arasa ivanj]$ date
> > Wed Jan 19 10:24:43 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@arasa ivanj]$ date --date yesterday
> > Tue Jan 18 10:24:50 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@arasa ivanj]$ date --date tomorrow
> > Thu Jan 20 10:24:56 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@arasa ivanj]$ date --date "1 day ago"
> > Tue Jan 18 10:25:04 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@arasa ivanj]$ date --date "1 day"
> > Thu Jan 20 10:25:13 PYST 2000
> > [ivanj@arasa ivanj]$
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