3 files changed, 78 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
-Subproject 278d609ead8d065b4c4a94705b8fd127c3df367
+Subproject 8d08fa04b902a9fdd504c6ceae2efb8ca650c2a
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index 61a64a12e..7fe74c0c3 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ TESTS =						\
   tail-2/tail-n0f				\
   misc/ls-misc					\
   misc/date					\
+  misc/date-next-dow				\
   misc/ptx-overrun				\
   misc/xstrtol					\
   misc/od					\
diff --git a/tests/misc/date-next-dow b/tests/misc/date-next-dow
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..0bc94e17d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/misc/date-next-dow
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# Test "date".
+
+# Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+use strict;
+use POSIX qw(strftime);
+
+(my $ME = $0) =~ s|.*/||;
+
+# Turn off localization of executable's output.
+@ENV{qw(LANGUAGE LANG LC_ALL)} = ('C') x 3;
+
+# Export TZ=UTC0 so that zone-dependent strings match.
+$ENV{TZ} = 'UTC0';
+
+my $now = time;
+my @d = localtime ($now);
+my @d_week = localtime ($now + 7 * 24 * 3600);
+my $wday = $d[6];
+my $wday_str = qw(sun mon tue wed thu fri sat)[$wday];
+
+my @Tests =
+    (
+     # test-name, [option, option, ...] {OUT=>"expected-output"}
+     #
+
+     # Running "date -d mon +%a" on a Monday must print Mon.
+     ['dow',  "-d $wday_str +%a", {OUT => ucfirst $wday_str}],
+     # It had better be the same date, too.
+     ['dow2', "-d $wday_str +%F", {OUT => strftime("%F", @d)}],
+
+     ['next-dow', "-d 'next $wday_str' +%F", {OUT => strftime("%F", @d_week)}],
+    );
+
+# Append "\n" to each OUT=> RHS if the expected exit value is either
+# zero or not specified (defaults to zero).
+foreach my $t (@Tests)
+  {
+    my $exit_val;
+    foreach my $e (@$t)
+      {
+        ref $e && ref $e eq 'HASH' && defined $e->{EXIT}
+	  and $exit_val = $e->{EXIT};
+      }
+    foreach my $e (@$t)
+      {
+        ref $e && ref $e eq 'HASH' && defined $e->{OUT} && ! $exit_val
+	  and $e->{OUT} .= "\n";
+      }
+  }
+
+my $save_temps = $ENV{DEBUG};
+my $verbose = $ENV{VERBOSE};
+
+my $prog = 'date';
+my $fail = run_tests ($ME, $prog, \@Tests, $save_temps, $verbose);
+
+# Skip the test if the starting and stopping day numbers differ.
+my @d_post = localtime (time);
+$d_post[7] == $d[7]
+  or (warn "$ME: test straddled a day boundary; skipped"), exit 77;
+
+exit $fail;