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From: Jelle de Jong <jelledejong@powercraft.nl>
To: 63784@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63784: date --date "1 month ago" +%Y-%m does not work as expected on day 31
Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 13:55:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7795b0b-3ee2-d937-d337-59bb90f5e715@powercraft.nl> (raw)

Hello everybody,

I been hitting an issue for a while now that  date commands return the 
wrong month on day 31 of a month and my automations stops working on 
correctly on these days.

root@sydney:~# date
Wed Aug 31 22:09:04 CEST 2022
root@sydney:~# date --date "1 month ago" +%Y-%m
2022-07
root@sydney:~# date --date "2 month ago" +%Y-%m
2022-07
root@sydney:~# date --date "3 month ago" +%Y-%m
2022-05
root@sydney:~# date --date "4 month ago" +%Y-%m
2022-05

root@sydney:~# date
Sat Dec 31 19:20:13 CET 2022
root@sydney:~# date --date '1 month ago' +%Y-%m
2022-12

$ date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.30
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later

I would love to have this fixed if possible.

If I am using the wrong command I would love to be educated as well. 
Should I use date --date "$(date +%Y-%m-01) -1 month" +%Y-%m instead...

Kind regards,

Jelle de Jong




             reply	other threads:[~2023-05-29 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-29 11:55 Jelle de Jong [this message]
2023-05-29 14:27 ` bug#63784: date --date "1 month ago" +%Y-%m does not work as expected on day 31 Pádraig Brady

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