'date' >>>>>>>>>>>

[robert@rocknet.net.au]

Hi!

[root@ns1:ttyp1]:/usr/debian
# date -d1year; date -d2years; date -d3years; date -d4years
Mon Jul  6 13:30:51 EST 1998
Tue Jul  6 13:30:51 EST 1999
Thu Jan  1 13:59:59 EST 1970
Thu Jan  1 13:59:59 EST 1970
[root@ns1:ttyp1]:/usr/debian
# date --version
date - GNU sh-utils 1.12
[root@ns1:ttyp1]:/usr/debian


This is on a debian-1.2 system.

I get the same for a slackware-3.2 system with  'sh-utils 1.12'

However I know that with  'sh-utils 1.16' from

	ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu

I would be getting:

# date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 1.16

# date -d1year; date -d2years; date -d3years; date -d4years
Sun Jul  5 00:34:02 EDT 1998
Mon Jul  5 00:34:02 EDT 1999
Wed Jul  5 00:34:02 EDT 2000
Thu Jul  5 00:34:02 EDT 2001

# date -d40years
date -d40years
Sun Jul  5 00:35:37 EDT 2037

# date -d41years
date -d41years
date: invalid date `41years'


which at least is a bit better ;)  As I have just upgraded the
slackware box ...


I have a ls-lRa.gz of ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian and have

' zcat ftp.debian.org-pub.debian-ls-lRa.gz | grep sh-util '

but found no such package ...

Any ideas how on debian do I upgrade the 'date' program
( and the rest of the sh-utils programs )is greatly appreciated.

TIA,

	Rob -


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