fi
# compare midnight today to midnight the day the stamp was updated
- stamp=$(date --date=$(date -r $stamp --iso-8601) +%s)
- now=$(date --date=$(date --iso-8601) +%s)
+ stamp_file="$stamp"
+ stamp=$(date --date=$(date -r $stamp_file --iso-8601) +%s 2>/dev/null)
+ if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
+ # Due to some timezones returning 'invalid date' for midnight on
+ # certain dates (eg America/Sao_Paulo), if date returns with error
+ # remove the stamp file and return 0. See coreutils bug:
+ # http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-09/msg00176.html
+ rm -f "$stamp_file"
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ now=$(date --date=$(date --iso-8601) +%s 2>/dev/null)
+ if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
+ # As above, due to some timezones returning 'invalid date' for midnight
+ # on certain dates (eg America/Sao_Paulo), if date returns with error
+ # return 0.
+ return 0
+ fi
+
delta=$(($now-$stamp))
# intervall is in days,