[SLL] newest "date" in RHL coreutils messes up my script

[Andrew Sweger]

Try,

date -d '1jun07 -1 day'

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, William Kreuter wrote:

> When I recently did an up2date on coreutils, "date"
> updated to 5.2.1 from 4.5.3.  This caused the result
> of:
> 
> date -d 0jun07
> 
> to change from the desired "Thu May 31 00:00:00 PDT
> 2007" to "invalid date `0jun07'".
> 
> My script needs to obtain the previous day's date
> on each day of the month.  Since I don't see an
> argument to date which would do the reverse of
> "date +%s", please give me some ideas with which I
> could keep my bash script nice and compact.
> 
> As a stopgap, I reinstalled date 4.5.3.
> 
> Billy
> 

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