Bug 88207
| Summary: | date does not calculate yesterday properly with Standard Time to Day light savings time change | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Dombek <dombek> |
| Component: | coreutils | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-04-07 19:51:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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We don't ship coreutils in Red Hat Linux 9. Perhaps you meant coreutils 4.5.3. Reported upstream. Sorry it is sh-utils. I thought I selected the correct name. -Dave I made a mistake typing 'We don't ship coreutils in Red Hat Linux 9'; I meant to write 'We don't ship sh-utils in Red Hat Linux 9'. coreutils is the correct component. |
Description of problem: The date command as provided by gnu-sh-utils 2.0.11 does not properly calculate the date for yesterday. date --date=yesterday does NOT work with changes from Standard time to Daylight savings time [root@adsfa root]# date --date=yesterday Sat Apr 5 23:27:59 EST 2003 [central@adsfa central]$ date Mon Apr 7 00:33:30 EDT 2003 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0.11 How reproducible: ALL the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set date on computer to Sat, April 7, between 12-1am 2. Run date --date=yesterday 3. Actual results: see above Expected results: The date program should properly caluclate the date. It appears the date command is just subtracting 24hours from the said time. This is incorrect. Additional info: This may also have a problem in other timezones as Europe changes before the US.