Re: Bug#208494: coreutils: seq -w doesn't work properly with twonegative values

2003-09-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Patrick Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 5.0.90-3 > Severity: normal > > seq -w 0 -11 returns > 000 > -01 > ... > -11 > > while > seq -w -4 -11 returns > -4 > -5 > .. > -11 > > the latter doesn't seem to be correct Thanks for the report! I'll look more closely at

Re: Bug(?) in date concerning 'tomorrow' and 'day'

2003-09-03 Thread Paul Eggert
"Jonas Mixter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In Sweden daylight savings is ending at October 26 this year. > If one run `date --date="2003-10-26 tomorrow"` to convert an iso-8601 date > into local time (and add a day at the same time), one doesn't get the date > and time of the 27 October but inst

Re: sort -o x -o y

2003-09-03 Thread Paul Eggert
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ echo a|sort -o x -o y > $ ls > y POSIX allows this behavior, but it's admittedly weird. I think that option order should not matter, unless POSIX or the documentation explicitly says otherwise. So I propose the following patch. While looking into th