Add tests to show new class of strings accepted by date -d.

* tests/misc/date (rel-1day, rel-plus1): New tests for the recent
change in gnulib's getdate.y.
* NEWS: Mention the fix.

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3d682f910..1473f7ef3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-11-23  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+	Add tests to show new class of strings accepted by date -d.
+	* tests/misc/date (rel-1day, rel-plus1): New tests for the recent
+	change in gnulib's getdate.y.
+	* NEWS: Mention the fix.
+
 2007-11-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
 
 	Quiet warnings about unused parameters.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a5936f896..14fb3cd8b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   cut now diagnoses the '-' in "cut -f -" as an invalid range, rather
   than interpreting it as the unlimited range, "1-".
 
+  date -d now accepts strings of the form e.g., 'YYYYMMDD +N days',
+  in addition to the usual 'YYYYMMDD N days'.
+
   du -s now includes the size of any stat'able-but-inaccessible directory
   in the total size.
 
diff --git a/tests/misc/date b/tests/misc/date
index 7408ea277..4a87e648a 100755
--- a/tests/misc/date
+++ b/tests/misc/date
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ my @Tests =
 
      ['rel-3a', "-d '$d1 4 seconds ago' $fmt", {OUT=>"$d0 08:17:44"}],
 
+     # This has always worked, ...
+     ['rel-1day',  "-d '20050101  1 day'  +%F", {OUT=>"2005-01-02"}],
+     # ...but up to coreutils-6.9, this was rejected due to the "+".
+     ['rel-plus1', "-d '20050101 +1 day'  +%F", {OUT=>"2005-01-02"}],
+
      ['next-s', "-d '$d1 next second' '+%Y-%m-%d %T'", {OUT=>"$d0 $ts"}],
      ['next-m', "-d '$d1 next minute' '+%Y-%m-%d %T'", {OUT=>"$d0 $tm"}],
      ['next-h', "-d '$d1 next hour'   '+%Y-%m-%d %T'", {OUT=>"$d0 $th"}],