bug#53033: date has multiple "first saturday"s?

[Darryl Okahata via GNU coreutils Bug Reports]

Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:

    Inconsistencies like this are why I wish it had never been implemented.  
Best to avoid the syntax completely.

Thanks.  I'll avoid date and use either python or ruby to get this info.

  -- Darryl