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Re: it seems like a bug


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: it seems like a bug
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:12:28 -0700
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According to Mike Limansky on 10/31/2006 12:16 PM:
> Hello all,
> 
>   i use coreutils-5.94-r1 on gentoo linux. it's seems you have a bug 
> (possible 
> in getdate.c).
> 
> # date -d "2006-10-29 + 1 day"
> Sun Oct 29 23:00:00 MSK 2006

Not a bug.  This is due to daylight savings; the +1day adds 24 hours and
the lack of an hour starts the computation at midnight, but Oct 29 is 25
hours long for your timezone of MSK, leaving you stuck in the same day at
11 pm.

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