Re: errors on date

[Pádraig Brady]

David Gonzalez Marquez wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am student of computer science at university of Buenos Aires. I am
> using the command "date" for calculing days. I need to calculate the
> following day for any day. Doing that I see a error.
> 
> I use for example: date --date "1920-05-02 1 days" "+%F"
> 
> and for the followings days, I see a error:
> 
> date: invalid date `1920-05-01 1 days'

Seems to work fine here with coreutils 7.2 and 8.1
What version of date are you using?

cheers,
Pádraig.