[Bug-gnulib] Re: date -d 'now - 1 hour'

[Paul Eggert]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:

> $  date -d 'now + 1 hour'
> Sat Jun  5 09:25:10 GMT-8 2004
> $  date -d 'now - 1 hour'
> Sat Jun  5 09:25:15 GMT-8 2004

Thanks for reporting that.  Here's a patch, which I installed into gnulib.

2004-06-06  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * getdate.y (yylex): Allow space between sign and number.
        Problem reported by Dan Jacobson.

--- getdate.y.~1.81.~   2004-03-30 23:20:49 -0800
+++ getdate.y   2004-06-06 11:54:23 -0700
@@ -844,7 +844,8 @@ yylex (YYSTYPE *lvalp, parser_control *p
          if (c == '-' || c == '+')
            {
              sign = c == '-' ? -1 : 1;
-             c = *++pc->input;
+             while (c = *++pc->input, ISSPACE (c))
+               continue;
              if (! ISDIGIT (c))
                /* skip the '-' sign */
                continue;