Gnu date
is usually pretty flexible with input to its --date
option. However I find it is not giving me expected results using the ISO-8601 format for week-of-year that I found on wikipedia, namely yyyy-'W'ww
or yyyy-'W'ww-d
:
$ date -d 2019-W14-2 # expect some variation on 2019-04-02
date: invalid date '2019-W14-2'
Is there any format with which I can ask date
to tell me about the 14th week of 2019?
I've tracked the relevant code down to gnulib
module parse-datetime
. It looks like this would have to be a new feature. I'll update this space if it's ever implemented.