Re: Bug in date command

[Bob Proulx]

Eric Blake wrote:
> There seems to always be a rash of "bug" reports about date at the
> turn of the year (and also around daylight savings changes), due to
> the large number of people who don't realize the subtleties
> involved.  Perhaps we should create a FAQ entry with the most common
> of these reports.

Good idea!  I have just now done so and have replaced the old and long
stale old date entry (which was tiny and if you don't remember just
said that things had been updated after 2000) with one that is quite a
bit longer now.  :-)

  
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e

How does that look?

Bob