Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.1-10 Severity: normal $ date --version | head -3; date -d 1969-12-31 date (coreutils) 4.5.2 Written by David MacKenzie.
date: invalid date `1969-12-31' I expected output something like like "Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1969", not "invalid date". All dates before 1970-01-01 that I have tried seem to produce "invalid date"; all dates after 1970-01-01 that I have tried produce the output I expect. There is some discussion of this bug on the lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] near the end of January, 2003. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pipkin 2.4.18 #1 Fri Aug 16 15:40:44 EDT 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages libc6 depends on: ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

