[coreutils] coreutils-8.6 released [stable]

2010-10-15 Thread Jim Meyering
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.

bug#7223: DATE 8.5 and back -- Invalid date with specific dates

2010-10-15 Thread Lucien Raven
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:

bug#7223: DATE 8.5 and back -- Invalid date with specific dates

2010-10-15 Thread Paul Eggert
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

bug#7223: DATE 8.5 and back -- Invalid date with specific dates

2010-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
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.

bug#7223: DATE 8.5 and back -- Invalid date with specific dates

2010-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
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