Bug 183937

Summary:	date -d "month year" produces a strange result
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michael Young <m.a.young>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Michael Young 2006-03-03 21:57:03 UTC

Description of problem:
I would expect date -d "July 2005" to return something like "Fri Jul  1 00:00:00
BST 2005" or complain that format is invalid. However for some unknown reason 
it actually returns "Mon Dec 26 00:00:00 GMT 2011". The error seems to be
constant number of days out.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-5.2.1-48.1
However, it seems to have been broken for a long time - sh-utils-2.0.11-5.2 on
RHEL 2.1 has the same behaviour.

Comment 1 Michael Young 2006-03-08 09:32:48 UTC

It seems "July 2005" is actually giving the 2005th day of July this (32nd
July=1st August etc.). I have now checked this on the Fedora Core 5 beta, and
that reports an error with such date formats.