Bug 220935 - Date calculation error for date command
Summary: Date calculation error for date command
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 220934
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: coreutils
Version: 4.3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
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Reported: 2006-12-29 01:31 UTC by kennychw
Modified: 2007-11-17 01:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-12-29 13:03:54 UTC
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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:
03

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 ***
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