bug#35289: closed (Re: bug#35289: date+%-Y -d "- N years" errors when N > 111)

[C de-Avillez]

I have ran a few tests on Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, and 19.04 (all X86_64):

16.04:

address@hidden:~# date +%-Y -d '- 2010 years'
9
address@hidden:~# date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.25
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie.

18.04:

address@hidden:~# date +%-Y -d '- 2010 years'
9
address@hidden:~# date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.28
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie.

18.10:

address@hidden:~# date +%-Y -d '- 2010 years'
9
address@hidden:~# date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.28
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie.

19.04:

address@hidden:/data/buildd/coreutils$ date +%-Y -d '- 2010 years'
date: invalid date ‘- 2010 years’
1 address@hidden:/data/buildd/coreutils$ date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.30
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie.

Interestingly, it is also failing on git head:

130 address@hidden:/data/buildd/coreutils$ src/date +%-Y -d '- 2010 years'
src/date: invalid date ‘- 2010 years’
1 address@hidden:/data/buildd/coreutils$ src/date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.31.12-6d78a
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie.

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:16 PM O. Emmerson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> $ file /bin/date
> /bin/date: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
> dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for
> GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=26fa7f6c43c354d8c5647ebf946255a2b8e3c53d,
> stripped
>
>
>
>


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