Re: [date 5.2.1] Bug in "next" statement?

[James Youngman]

On 4/6/07, Michel Roig <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On a RHEL4 box, I tried the following commands:
>
>  date --date="2007-03-08 10:01 1 minute ago" +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
>  date --date="2007-03-08 10:01 next 1 minute" +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
>
> The first command returns 2007-03-08 10:00 (which is the output I expected)
> However, the second command returns 2001-03-08 10:02 (instead of 2007!)


orbital:~$ date --date="2007-03-08 10:01 1 minute ago"
Thu Mar  8 10:00:00 GMT 2007
orbital:~$ date --date="2007-03-08 10:01 1 minute"
Thu Mar  8 10:02:00 GMT 2007
orbital:~$ date --date="2007-03-08 10:01 next 1 minute"
date: invalid date `2007-03-08 10:01 next 1 minute'
orbital:~$ date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 5.97
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