Date arithmetic not working properly in macos bash

Question

I am trying to subtract 5 minutes from date but its giving unexpected output.

$ date -j -f "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%s"  -v "-5M" "2021/03/01 09:11:14"
Thu Jan  1 05:25:14 IST 1970

Please suggest the correction.

Answer 1

Converting my comment to answer so that solution is easy to find for future visitors.

This date command should work on BSD date:

date -j -f "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S" -v "-5M" "2021/03/01 09:11:14"

Issue in your command was use of .%s instead of .%S for the second component.