Your message dated Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:53:55 +0100
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and subject line Re: cron: date in cron(8), crontab(1) and crontab(5) man pages
is incorrect
has caused the Debian Bug report #1122750,
regarding cron: date in cron(8), crontab(1) and crontab(5) man pages is
incorrect
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Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-201
Severity: minor
The date at the bottom of the crontab(5) man page is incorrect.
This man page has
crontab 12/11/2025 CRONTAB(5)
thus meaning 12 November 2025. But it was modified yesterday.
The crontab(1) and cron(8) man pages show the same date, though
they do not appear to have been modified since October.
-- Package-specific info:
--- EDITOR:
not set
--- /usr/bin/editor:
/usr/bin/nano
--- /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 52008 2025-12-11 15:25:16 /usr/bin/crontab
--- /var/spool/cron:
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2023-12-25 03:13:01 /var/spool/cron
--- /var/spool/cron/crontabs:
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 2025-12-10 14:06:31 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
--- /etc/cron.d:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2025-12-12 14:01:34 /etc/cron.d
--- /etc/cron.daily:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2025-12-12 14:01:34 /etc/cron.daily
--- /etc/cron.hourly:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2025-12-12 14:01:34 /etc/cron.hourly
--- /etc/cron.monthly:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2025-12-12 14:01:34 /etc/cron.monthly
--- /etc/cron.weekly:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2025-12-12 14:01:34 /etc/cron.weekly
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'),
(500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.17.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii cron-daemon-common 3.0pl1-201
ii init-system-helpers 1.69
ii libc6 2.42-5
ii libpam-runtime 1.7.0-5
ii libpam0g 1.7.0-5
ii libselinux1 3.9-4
ii sensible-utils 0.0.26
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 3.10.6-1
Versions of packages cron suggests:
ii anacron 2.3-45
pn bat <none>
pn checksecurity <none>
ii logrotate 3.22.0-1
ii supercat 0.5.7-2+b1
Versions of packages cron is related to:
pn libnss-ldap <none>
pn libnss-ldapd <none>
pn libpam-ldap <none>
pn libpam-mount <none>
pn nis <none>
pn nscd <none>
-- no debconf information
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Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
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Hello Vincent,
I read carefully your first bug report again, and here is an excerpt:
crontab 12/11/2025 CRONTAB(5)
That does *not* mean 12 November 2025, when you consider that for people
with en_US.UTF-8 locale, the default date format is MDY
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country)
With the en_US.UTF-8 local, that means 11 December 2025.
So there is no bug.
Do not worry, both of us are living in France, where the date format is
DMY: people of the translation team are doing an amazing work,
and they always translated the date correctly to French standards.
Amitiés, Georges.
Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
> Control: reopen -1
> Control: found -1 3.0pl1-202
>
> On 2025-12-12 15:37:02 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > * added LANG=C.UTF-8 to make manpages, so their dates will be in
> > English locale. Closes: #1122750
>
> The locales do not seem to have any effect (even LC_ALL):
> rebuilding today (on 13 December) shows that the issue is
> still there.
>
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> Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
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