This is to announce coreutils-8.6, a stable release.
It's been over five months, with 200 change-sets in coreutils
and 550 in gnulib. There have been a handful of new features
(all relatively safe, imho), several bug fixes, and numerous
minor changes in behavior. See NEWS below for a summary.
This problem was reproduced in several versions of 'date', and the oldest one I
could reproduce the problem was 6.10.
But it doesn´t happen in older ones (tried on 'date' 5.97)
Examples:
# ./date +%Y --date=20101018
2010
# ./date +%Y --date=20101016
2010
# ./date +%Y --date=20101017
./date:
On 10/15/10 13:53, Lucien Raven wrote:
# ./date +%Y --date=20101017
./date: invalid date `20101017'
Undoubtedly your time zone setting is
TZ=America/Sao_Paulo, or something like that,
and you're asking for a nonexistent time stamp.
There is no time stamp that is exactly equal to
2010-10-17
On 10/15/2010 02:53 PM, Lucien Raven wrote:
This problem was reproduced in several versions of 'date', and the oldest one I
could reproduce the problem was 6.10.
But it doesn´t happen in older ones (tried on 'date' 5.97)
Thanks for the report. However, this is intentional.
Lucien Raven wrote:
This problem was reproduced in several versions of 'date', and the
oldest one I could reproduce the problem was 6.10.
But it doesn´t happen in older ones (tried on 'date' 5.97)
Thank you for the report. But the critical piece of information you
didn't list was what