Bug 220935

Summary: Date calculation error for date command
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: kennychw <chia_hanwee>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Version: 4.3CC: chia_hanwee, meyering
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Description kennychw 2006-12-29 01:31:54 UTC 
Description of problem:
When I run the following date command on 29 December 2006 to obtain the month 
number for 10 month ago, the command return march instead of February

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-5.2.1-31.2

How reproducible:
$ date
Fri Dec 29 09:15:42 SGT 2006
$ date -d '10 months ago' +%m
03

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Actual results:
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Expected results:
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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2006-12-29 13:03:54 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220934 ***