Christian Zagrodnick wrote: > date says this: > > % date -d '2000-01-31 + 1 month' > Thu Mar 2 00:00:00 CET 2000 My date says this: [steve@localhost]$ date -d '2000-01-31 + 1 month' Thu Mar 2 00:00:00 UTC 2000 I don't think it is very helpful to add precedented precision to a datetime. Manipulations of dates should return dates or date intervals. -- Steve Alexander