Re: a bug in date concerning daylight saving time

[Lao DanTong]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Lao DanTong wrote:
> > John Cowan wrote:
> > > Maybe you want to argue that dates without times should mean the first
> > > second of the day rather than 00:00:00.
> >
> > Yes. this makes a lot of sense, don't you think? Notice that date reports
> > illegal date for a date specification like --date=2007-10-14+2hours, which
> > should be legal and render as 2007-10-14T03:00:00
>
> What should be done for other invalid dates such as Feb 30th?

good point. I think Feb 30th could produce:

$ date --date 2007-02-30
Fri Mar  2 00:00:00 BRT 2007

as the date used to do in old times. I don't think this could be harmful 
in any way, and the result IS meaningful.