Bug in command date?

[richard.mouli@axa.be]

Title: Bug in command date?

Hello,

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I recently wrote scripts that relies on relative dates (they do "intensive" date manipulations). I encountered the following problem:

#: date -d "today -1 week"
Wed Apr 27 09:54:18 CEST 2005
#: date -d "today - 1 week"
Wed May 11 09:54:22 CEST 2005  

What seems to be the same (note the space between the dash and the one) does not report the same result!
Should this be reported as a bug (and how)?

Thanks

        Richard

#: date --version
date (coreutils) 5.2.1
...

#: uname -a
Linux s01dev03 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Tue Mar 22 14:53:20 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
...

#: bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
...

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