date returns the wrong day (DST problem?)

[Ben Blout]

Binary package hint: coreutils

In Dapper, the "+1 week" relative time specification seems to be wrong.
~$ date
Sun Oct 26 12:39:09 EDT 2008
~$ date --date="next Saturday"
Sat Nov 1 00:00:00 EDT 2008
~$ date --date="next Saturday + 1 week"
Fri Nov 7 23:00:00 EST 2008

However, the same commands return the correct information on a Hardy machine:
~$ date
Sun Oct 26 12:41:27 EDT 2008
~$ date --date="next Saturday"
Sat Nov 1 00:00:00 EDT 2008
$ date --date="next Saturday + 1 week"
Sat Nov 8 00:00:00 EST 2008

So it looks like something that has been fixed upstream. Could the fix be included in Dapper? It bit me pretty badly this week.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

I am sorry we never got to this bug in time. Dapper is now unsupported, and -- as you verified -- it works on Hardy (and Intrepid, since both use coreutils 6.10). I just tested with Karmic coreutils and current upstream, and both also work.

As such, closing.

Again, sorry.

[Ben Blout (bdb-new)]

I believe coreutils is included in the part of dapper that will be continued to be supported.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2009-July/000123.html
http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/dapper/supported.txt

So I've re-opened this bug.

[Andrew McCarthy (andrewmccarthy)]

This bug was fixed many years ago, although it seems it wasn't backported to Dapper. Closing as Fix Released.