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]$
>
> I temporarily solved my problem by using "1 day ago" instead of
> yesterday. But why could it have stopped working. It used to use
> yesterday's date when it was supposed to.
>
> Ivan Jager
>
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