retitle 8142 date help text
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On 02/28/2011 06:23 PM, Schaefer, Kevin L wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I located a bug in the help page for the date command, which can be accessed 
> by typing "date --help". It says that the range for second is (00..60), when 
> it should probably be (00..59).

Thanks for the report.  However, the man page is correct.  Some systems
support accurate calculation of leap seconds, and according to
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Leap_second, there have
been 24 such times in the last 40 years where the correct time ended in
:60 seconds; most recently on Dec 31 2008.  I've marked this report
closed in the database.

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